E1000 or pcnet would work from what I've been able to tell setting it up with qemu. Thank you for the help! Mark -----Original Message----- From: et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel P. Berrange Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:35 AM To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools Cc: Seale, Mark Subject: Re: Virt-Install options On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Seale, Mark wrote: > > Would anyone happen to know if there is a method to specify different > > NIC models on startup or install of a guest OS? I know Qemu and KVM are > > capable of it with the '-net nic,model=', but I wasn't sure if there is > > a way to do this when using virt-install. Every OpenBSD VM I make is > > giving watchdog timeout errors for the NIC (re0)... > > > > No there currently is no cmdline switch to specify a nic model. Support > for specifying a nic model was recently added to libvirt, so it certainly > is something we could support for virt-install. We should automatically set the optimal NIC according to the OS type and variant provided - we don't need to expose this as an explicit command line arg. Just need someone to say what the optimal NIC for OpenBSD is ? Choice of ne2k, rtl8139, e1000 ... take your pick Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. To reply to our e-mail administrator directly, please send an e-mail to postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools