Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.

[Anthony Liguori]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:23 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Shouldn't ne2k continue to be the default for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10
>   

Hrm, doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this.  I guess we could 
change the pc_init functions for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10.  Any thoughts?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Mark.
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