On 12/12/2013 05:48 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:43:27PM +0530, Pradipta Kumar Banerjee wrote: >> On 12/12/2013 05:27 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:18:13PM +0530, Pradipta Kr. Banerjee wrote: >>>> From: "Pradipta Kr. Banerjee" <bpra...@in.ibm.com> >>>> >>>> Make virtio as the default net device for PPC64 >>> >>> Why ? >> Hi Daniel, >> rtl8139 is not supported and maintained. Either of e1000, spapr-vlan or >> virtio >> are supported and improved upon. So its better to default to one of the above >> and virtio is the saner default. > > IOW that has nothing todo with PPC64 architecture, which means that is not > an acceptable reason to special case this for PPC64.
My response was specific to ppc64. Sorry I should have put it clearly. rtl8139 is not supported and maintained for ppc64. It also lacks functionality like ppc64 guest network boot. > > Daniel > -- Regards, Pradipta -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
