Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu: Default to virtio-net where available
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 09:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I think we should just do nothing. If people/apps care about optimal
defaults, nothing libvirt changes will make them happy. Apps need to
be just using libosinfo to get the sensible defaults on a per OS
basis.
This is not about optimal defaults though, it's about being
able to install the OS at all without having to explicitly
specify that you want to use virtio:
$ sudo virt-install \
[...] \
--os-variant=rhel7.0 \
--network network=default
ERROR internal error: early end of file from monitor:
possible problem: 2015-09-03T09:00:42.154356Z qemu-kvm:
-device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:d4:d8:8f,\
bus=pci.0,addr=0x1: 'rtl8139' is not a valid device model name
This happens because we assume rtl8139 will be available, but
that's not the case eg. on RHEL ppc64.
Cheers.
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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team