On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:33:40PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:44:38PM -0400, Jim Paris wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sometime between kvm-36 and kvm-46 I ran into problems with the > > default QEMU network card (ne2k-pci). Switching it fixed the > > problems, but libvirt doesn't support changing the NIC model. > > These patches add support for: > > > > <interface> > > <nic model="rtl8139"/> > > </interface> > > > > which becomes > > > > qemu -net nic,model=rtl8139,mac=... > > > > By default, no model is appended to the qemu command line, as before. > > Documentation update & some fixes are included too. > > Hum, > > I would really prefer if we were able to identify the issue and > fix it transparently for the user (for example by detecting the > kvm version if possible) rather than add an option in the permanent > data file just to make stuff work. I hope this is possible, but > can't really tell. In Fedora/RHEL we simply switched Xen, QEMU and KVM to all use rtl8139 by defualt since ne2k is crap. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list