On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
This patch allows selection of the NIC model for QEMU/KVM domains. The selection is done by adding a <model/> element to the XML, as in this example:
<interface type='user'> <mac address='00:16:3e:33:b8:d3'/> <model type='ne2k_pci'/> </interface>
The model type string is only checked to make sure it's a short alpha-numeric + underscore, since it seems impractical to extract the actual list of supported models.
If you choose a supported model then QEMU starts up with this extra -nic parameter:
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 500 -smp 1 -monitor pty \ -boot c -hda /var/lib/xen/images/rhel51x32kvm.img \ -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:33:b8:d3,vlan=0,model=ne2k_pci -net user,vlan=0 \ -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0
If you choose a non-existant model then you get the error:
libvir: QEMU error : internal error QEMU quit during monitor startup
This patch seems incomplete - there's no code to include the <model> tag when dumping the XML. We should also implement the same for Xen driver really, since that has the choice of ne2k/rtl8139/e1000 too Regards, Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|