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

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/25/2009 04:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:45:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
> > I am unable to get Windows XP to work with the e1000 device, either with
> > its built-in drivers or with Windows Update.  I think it's better to
> > switch to rtl8139 (qemu-kvm's default for years now).
> >      
> It used to not work with win2003 as well, but I thought someone recently
> fixed the bug that caused that to happen.
>
> I use e1000 with win xp, although win xp has no driver at all for the
> e1000 and requires you to download the intel driver and install that.
> The intel driver also made win 2003 work before even though the microsoft
> supplied driver did not work.
>    

Ok.  IMO it's important for networking to work out of the box, so we 
should avoid e1000 as default.


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