From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz3Q-0007TV-6z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz3L-0007Ri-AC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40571 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mfz3L-0007Rb-4j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:23 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:51622) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mfz3K-0007pl-El for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:22 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e8.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7PGdI6m020735 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:18 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n7PGdJSn254344 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:39:19 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n7PGaMA9029688 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9413B5.5030108@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:39:17 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori 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> <4A940A40.30608@redhat.com> <20090825163028.GD23700@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090825163028.GD23700@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: Avi Kivity , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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