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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -net nic,model=? not working
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> The documentation is unclear.  You need to give other, valid options
> for starting QEMU.  The simplest is to give the name of a disk image
> file as an argument.
>
> Then it outputs the message about NIC models and exits - after
> starting then closing some devices.

Which of the drivers is the most efficient?

qemu: Supported ISA NICs: ne2k_isa
qemu: Supported PCI NICs: i82551 i82557b i82559er ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139

ne2k_pci seems to be the default one


Seems like it doesn't work with KVM though, I use virtio with these 
machines anyways.