Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make the e1000 the default network adapter for the pc target.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 06:58:56PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Ok.  IMO it's important for networking to work out of the box, so we  
> should avoid e1000 as default.

Certainly for anything newer than XP it seems e1000 just works (or at
least could be fixed so it works) and is very efficient.  For XP though,
it does not seem supported out of the box.  One could always manually
install the e1000 driver and then make it work, but it probably isn't
a good default.  Of course one could question whether XP should hold
back good defaults for everything else, since after all linux as a guest
would work very well with e1000 as would many other OS choices.

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Len Sorensen