From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyQM-0005Q7-Qz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:59:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyQI-0005P8-2U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:59:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35769 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfyQH-0005P5-T8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:59:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35329) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfyQH-0000VE-6y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:59:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4A940A40.30608@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:58:56 +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> <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090825132347.GB23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 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: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/25/2009 04:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:45:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> 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). >> > It used to not work with win2003 as well, but I thought someone recently > fixed the bug that caused that to happen. > > I use e1000 with win xp, although win xp has no driver at all for the > e1000 and requires you to download the intel driver and install that. > The intel driver also made win 2003 work before even though the microsoft > supplied driver did not work. > Ok. IMO it's important for networking to work out of the box, so we should avoid e1000 as default. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function