Henri Cook wrote:
Hi guys,
I just tried to port a few customers over to this libvirt setup i'm hoping to run and I couldn't get their machines started because there's no mechanism to specify a model in the XML!
I know redhat have changed KVM's default driver to e1000, which I think is the one I like the most and almost if not all of my VMs use. Ubuntu haven't done that yet however!
Is there a model directive in the latest version? In the works? Just so I know which solution I should pursue (updating libvirt or harassing ubuntu to change the default)
Hi, I posted a series of patches to do this last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg03554.html It generated some discussion but AFAIK didn't go anywhere. Henri, if you want a quick hack to add specific options to kvm, you can just specify a script as the KVM binary and have it add or modify arguments as you wish. For example, I used: #!/bin/bash i=0 ARGV=("$@") while [ $i -lt $# ] ; do # Use rtl8139 network card instead of default ne2k_pci ARGV[$i]=${ARGV[$i]/#nic/nic,model=rtl8139} i=$((i+1)) done exec /usr/bin/kvm ${ARGV[@]} -jim