Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt: xen: do not use ioemu type for any emulated NIC

Hello, On Friday 16 March 2012 11:34:37 Stefan Bader wrote: I had a look at a similar problem some time ago, so some gereral comments: Xens point of view: If you specify model=XXX in Xen, you get that emulated NIC and also a second Xen-PV netfront interface as well. When you specify type=ioemu, you only get the emulated NIC, netfront is skipped. libvirts point of view: If you explicitly specify a model for the interface, you get exactly that model without the Xen-PV-companion interface, that is type=ioemu is added. Without an explicit model, you get the default rtl8139 and netfront. The problem with modern Linux kernels is, that unless you specify "xen_emul_unplug=never" on the Kernel command line, the kernel detects that you're running on Xen and disabled the emulated NIC leaving you without any network. So currently with libvirt you can't specify the type of the emulated NIC (for example to get a more modern e1000) and also get the Xen-PV-interface as well. If I remeber corrently that forces you to change the NIC model when installing the Windows GPLPV drivers, I hope that little bit is helpful to others, since it cost my some time to find that out myself the hard way. Corrections are appreciated. Sincerely Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn(a)univention.de Univention GmbH be open. fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 D-28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de/