From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McRIL-0006gr-GA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McRIF-0006gf-VS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59553 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McRIF-0006gc-P7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:07 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50458) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1McRIF-0006MW-2O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:07 -0400 Message-ID: <8EDC93D43B084B09BFCCCA57EE2CB8CE@FSCPC> From: "Sebastian Herbszt" References: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1250267001-4431-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:58:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapterfor the pc target. List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. Can we then please get the e1000 Etherboot rom feature comparable to the other roms [1]? [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-07/msg00686.html - Sebastian