Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:21:58PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
I'm not passing down variant now for virtinst API calls (but can
probably do this in a future
release if the user supplies it). Is there a suggestion to just make it
default to the compatible NIC that would
be good for all Fedora/RHEL (or are there performance issues in doing
this or something)?
That's the situation we've got already - we compile Xen and KVM to use
the rtl8139 nic since that's the best lowest-common denominator. It was
a barely passable approach so far, but with VirtIO it is now past its sell
by date and we have to key off os type/variant. If we don't then we'll
be limiting guests to 1/100 of the their potential performance. Not cool
Daniel
Yikes :)
I'll do some more manual creation tests tomorrow using the qemu command
line.
Passing in the OS version is doable as we should soon have "cobbler
import" storing that data.
Right now, it stores the name "RHEL5.2", etc, but that's not hard enough
to key off of.
--Michael
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