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

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/25/2009 04:34 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.
>
> That seems to conflict with what Avi suggested (that there's a 
> built-in driver).

I misreported it, Windows does not find a driver either in media or in 
Windows Update.

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