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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter
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Mark McLoughlin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target. |
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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:34:46 +0100 |
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:23 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The ne2k is an ancient card that performs pretty terribly under QEMU. In many
> modern OSes, there is no longer drivers available for the ne2k.
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> Switch the default network adapter to e1000. This card is more widely
> suppported and performs rather well under QEMU. There may be very old OSes
> that had a ne2k driver but not an e1000 driver but I think this is likely the
> exception.
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> I think the average user is better served with an e1000 vs ne2k.
Shouldn't ne2k continue to be the default for pc-0.11 and pc-0.10?
Cheers,
Mark.