Ian Jackson
2011-Feb-01 18:48 UTC
[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: change default HVM emulated network card to rtl8139
xend uses rtl8139, and we want xl to be compatible with xm. Some
older operating systems don''t have e1000 drivers, and we want widest
compatibility rather than best performance (people who want good
performance are best advised to use PV-on-HVM drivers).
We''ll probably switch to a new default when switching to upstream
qemu, in the Xen 4.2 release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl.c b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
index 5c1b3ab..6dbfca7 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ int libxl_device_nic_init(libxl_device_nic *nic_info, int
devnum)
nic_info->domid = 0;
nic_info->devid = devnum;
nic_info->mtu = 1492;
- nic_info->model = strdup("e1000");
+ nic_info->model = strdup("rtl8139");
nic_info->mac[0] = 0x00;
nic_info->mac[1] = 0x16;
nic_info->mac[2] = 0x3e;
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Stefano Stabellini
2011-Feb-02 11:11 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: change default HVM emulated network card to rtl8139
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:> xend uses rtl8139, and we want xl to be compatible with xm. Some > older operating systems don''t have e1000 drivers, and we want widest > compatibility rather than best performance (people who want good > performance are best advised to use PV-on-HVM drivers). > > We''ll probably switch to a new default when switching to upstream > qemu, in the Xen 4.2 release cycle. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> >Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Ian Jackson
2011-Feb-02 17:05 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: change default HVM emulated network card to rtl8139
Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: change default
HVM emulated network card to rtl8139"):> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > xend uses rtl8139, and we want xl to be compatible with xm. Some
> > older operating systems don''t have e1000 drivers, and we want
widest
> > compatibility rather than best performance (people who want good
> > performance are best advised to use PV-on-HVM drivers).
>
> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Thanks, applied.
Ian.
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