On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Adrian Garay wrote: > Greetings! > > I am currently testing Centos5.3, KVM-84, libvirt from the Centos > default packages and a Vista 32 guest. > I am unfortunately experiencing difficulties with the default > realtek8139 network driver, the solution for which I've read > would be to change the emulated network device type to e1000. > > When editing the xml file for my guest, I change: > > <interface type='bridge'> > <mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/> > <source bridge='br0'/> > </interface> > > to: > > <interface type='bridge'> > <mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/> > <source bridge='br0'/> > <model type='e1000'/> > </interface> > > and then doing a: > > virsh --connect qemu:///system define /etc/libvirt/qemu/vista32.xml > > The correct guest is updated, but the model type information I've > just added is stripped from my XML and I'm once again left with an > 8139 emulated nic. > > According to the command: > qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null > > I should be able to use the e1000 driver. > > My sincerest apologies if this is already known, or I'm missing something > terribly obvious. I am new to mailing lists (this would be my first!) What libvirt version do you have ? It sounds very much like it is too old for the 'model' attribute Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -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 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list