On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Adrian Garay wrote:
Greetings!
I am currently testing Centos5.3, KVM-84, libvirt from the Centos
default packages and a Vista 32 guest.
I am unfortunately experiencing difficulties with the default
realtek8139 network driver, the solution for which I've read
would be to change the emulated network device type to e1000.
When editing the xml file for my guest, I change:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
</interface>
to:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='00:16:3e:38:a8:ad'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='e1000'/>
</interface>
and then doing a:
virsh --connect qemu:///system define /etc/libvirt/qemu/vista32.xml
The correct guest is updated, but the model type information I've
just added is stripped from my XML and I'm once again left with an
8139 emulated nic.
According to the command:
qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
I should be able to use the e1000 driver.
My sincerest apologies if this is already known, or I'm missing something
terribly obvious. I am new to mailing lists (this would be my first!)
What libvirt version do you have ? It sounds very much like it is too
old for the 'model' attribute
Daniel
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