From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:39:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9413B5.5030108@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090825163028.GD23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 06:58:56PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Ok. IMO it's important for networking to work out of the box, so we
>> should avoid e1000 as default.
>>
>
> Certainly for anything newer than XP it seems e1000 just works (or at
> least could be fixed so it works) and is very efficient. For XP though,
>
Mainstream support eol for xp is scheduled for 4/14/10. New licenses
are no longer available.
Since 0.12 is targeted at 3/2/10, I think it's pretty reasonable to not
support XP in the default configuration especially considering the
advantage to every other guest in using e1000.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 16:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target Anthony Liguori
2009-08-15 21:58 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapterfor " Sebastian Herbszt
2009-08-17 10:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for " Mark McLoughlin
2009-08-24 15:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-24 15:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-24 16:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 10:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 12:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 15:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 13:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-25 14:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 15:58 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 16:30 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 16:39 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-08-25 16:56 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-08-25 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 18:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-26 8:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 17:28 ` Reimar Döffinger
2009-08-26 5:47 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-25 20:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Bjørn Mork
2009-08-26 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-25 13:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
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