Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 16:16 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Ian, > > That's interesting, because when I do lsb_release-a returns > > No LSB modules are available. > Distribution ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie) > Release: 8.6 > Codename:Jessie > > /etc/ap

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Ian, That's interesting, because when I do lsb_release-a returns No LSB modules are available. Distribution ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie) Release: 8.6 Codename:Jessie /etc/apt/sources.list entries all point at stable, which should be jessie, I think.

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 10:22 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Ian, > > Thanks for clarifying this - I misunderstood your previous statement > and > thought it was the Wheezy kernel which supported virtio and not > Jessie. > > However, I am already running Jessie. The logs you posted earlier contain:

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-12 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Ian, Thanks for clarifying this - I misunderstood your previous statement and thought it was the Wheezy kernel which supported virtio and not Jessie. However, I am already running Jessie. The only non-PCI nic QEMU supports for a bridge is the virtio_device. The one used for SLIRP is not an opti

Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

2016-11-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 20:05 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Ian, > > Thanks much for the info. > > I find it interesting that the virtio options for vexpress would require > PCI, since the vexpress architecture doesn't support PCI. IIRC there was _no_ option to support virtio on any platform witho