[libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu: Default to virtio-net where available

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This happens because we assume rtl8139 will be available, but
> > that's not the case eg. on RHEL ppc64.
> 
> Right, but changing upstream to default to virtio, just because RHEL
> downstream disabled other devices is not right.

Just assuming rtl8139 will be available, as we're doing
right now, is not very nice either :)

> Either upstream will need to dynamically change if it finds the
> device
> not available, or downstream RHEL libvirt should have a downstream
> only
> patch to workaround the RHEL QEMU PPC64 changes.

Yeah, Martin suggested doing something similar to the
first option as well.

Let's just probe for a bunch of network devices and use
the first one that's available, okay?

  1. rtl8139
  2. e1000
  3. virtio-net

Any other we should try? Any drawbacks to this approach?

Cheers.

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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team