From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyMm-0003YN-46 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:55:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyMh-0003ST-AN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:55:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41492 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyMh-0003SD-4Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:55:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48215) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfyMg-0008Lu-KG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:55:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4A940963.5040407@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:55:15 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target. References: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4A93C0C4.7060409@redhat.com> <4A93DB68.40006@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4A93DB68.40006@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/25/2009 03:39 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/14/2009 07:23 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under >>> QEMU. In many >>> modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k. >>> >>> Switch the default network adapter to e1000. This card is more widely >>> suppported and performs rather well under QEMU. There may be very >>> old OSes >>> that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is >>> likely the >>> exception. >>> >>> I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k. >> >> I am unable to get Windows XP to work with the e1000 device, either >> with its built-in drivers or with Windows Update. I think it's >> better to switch to rtl8139 (qemu-kvm's default for years now). > > Is this a bug or is this not known to work? No idea. Windows didn't even find a driver, even with Windows Update (which should have the most uptodate list). > > I'd rather fix the e1000 bug than switch to rtl8139 which is still > awfully slow. > Me too, but if a fix doesn't come up soon, I don't see a choice. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function