Sorry, it turned out to be the operating system of the guest OS having the issue. It was not an issue with libvirt. My bad, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Chris Lalancette [mailto:clalance@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:34 AM To: Jonathan Hoover Cc: libvirt-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [libvirt] libvirt with qemu-kvm, not recognizing NIC model On 05/04/2010 12:46 PM, Jonathan Hoover wrote:
Is this the right list for this question, or should I be elsewhere?
I am trying to specify a network card "model type" of "pcnet" (to emulate vmware esxi's network card). No matter what I put for model type in my xml config file, it comes up as an Intel e1000. I ran "qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null" and I got back a list of supported models including pcnet,e1000,virtio, and others as expected.
No matter which I put in my xml file for /etc/libvirt/qemu/Symantec-bg.xml (a Symantec Brightmail Gateway virtual machine), I just get back that its an Intel card on boot (which doesn't work with Symantec BG).
Hm, this works just fine for me; I'm able to choose any of the above when I create a guest. However, you don't want to edit the /etc/libvirt file directly. Libvirt only reads that at startup and reload; during runtime it isn't re-read. To make the edit, you'll want to either use virt-manager or "virsh edit <guest>". If that doesn't work, post your entire XML file. -- Chris Lalancette