[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Make virtio as the default net device for PPC64

Thu Dec 12 12:13:27 UTC 2013

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" <bpradip at 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.

> 
> Daniel
> 


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Regards,
Pradipta