Laurent Vivier wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Farkas Levente wrote: >> >>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> >>> >>>> A Fedora user reported that Vista networking isn't working with KVM[1] and >>>> pointed to the Wiki >>>> >>>> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Vista_Networking_Workaround >>>> >>>> FYI, a patch from Xen was merged into upstream QEMU to fix this problem >>>> with rtl8139 a week or two back and works nicely with KVM+Vista... >>>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg11365.html >>>> >>>> ..avoiding need for messing around with ne2k drivers as mentioned in the >>>> wiki >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dan. >>>> >>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=308201 >>>> >>>> >>> does this means that in general use the ne2k driver is a better choice? >>> anyway is there a suggested network driver for the guests? >>> >>> >>> >> No, it means I need to merge qemu-cvs. >> >> rtl8139 performs faster than ne2000. >> > > But adding CRC computing in RTL839 should have some impacts on performance. > >
It's probably negligible since the copy has placed the packet in the cache. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
