Quoting "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Henri Cook wrote:
I just tried to port a few customers over to this libvirt setup i'm
hoping to run and I couldn't get their machines started because there's
no mechanism to specify a model in the XML!
I know redhat have changed KVM's default driver to e1000, which I think
is the one I like the most and almost if not all of my VMs use. Ubuntu
haven't done that yet however!
Is there a model directive in the latest version? In the works? Just so
I know which solution I should pursue (updating libvirt or harassing
ubuntu to change the default)
There isn't a way to select the model, but there ought to be. In KVM
64 the following NIC models are supported:
i82551 i82557b i82559er ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 e1000 virtio
Part of the problem with implementing this will be validating the
model (unless we just pass the model string directly to qemu which
could lead to errors). The documentation suggests running qemu with
'-net nic,model=?' to list the models, and there is code in
qemu/hw/pci.c to implement this, but it just doesn't work for me.
$ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=?
[ prints full help because of the missing hda parameter ]
$ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? hda=/dev/null
open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
qemu: could not open disk image hda=/dev/null
$ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? hda=/dev/zero
open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
qemu: could not open disk image hda=/dev/zero
$ touch /tmp/file
$ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? hda=/tmp/file
open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
qemu: could not open disk image hda=/tmp/file
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=1024 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00765395 s, 137 MB/s
$ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? hda=/tmp/file
open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
qemu: could not open disk image hda=/tmp/file
The same error happens in KVM and Qemu (not qemu-kvm) on Ubuntu. I'd
say the problem belongs to Qemu, not to KVM.
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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