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

Pradipta Kumar Banerjee bpradip at in.ibm.com
Thu Dec 12 12:36:59 UTC 2013


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" <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.
> 
> 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
> 


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Regards,
Pradipta




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