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

[Anthony Liguori]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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,
>   

Mainstream support eol for xp is scheduled for 4/14/10.  New licenses 
are no longer available.

Since 0.12 is targeted at 3/2/10, I think it's pretty reasonable to not 
support XP in the default configuration especially considering the 
advantage to every other guest in using e1000.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori