[libvirt-users] sr-vio on intel while virsh chooses rtl8139 for model type

[lejeczek]

On 03/10/14 17:15, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 11:38 AM, lejeczek wrote:
>> hi everybody
>>
>> I'd presume virsh makes the best possible choice, right?
>> It is that just seems bit... odd having realtek in guest and Intel's
>> VF on host, no?
> This can safely be ignored - in the case of an SRIOV VF that is assigned
> to the guest using PCI passthrough device assignment, the "model"
> attribute is meaningless, but libvirt will always fill in the default
> value (which is rtl8139) in the XML to prevent surprises if the default
> emulated NIC model ever changes.
>
> (I am assuming that you're using either <interface type='hostdev'> or
> <interface type='network'> pointint to a network that has <forward
> mode='hostdev'>. If you are instead using "type='direct'" or a network
> with "<forward mode='bridge|passthrough|vepa'>" then the model *does*
> matter, and you probably want to set it to "virtio", which is *not* the
> default because not all guest OSes have a virtio network driver by
> default (e.g. MS Windows))
I don't use forward (unless libvirt does that for me) but I 
have a pool like this one:
<interface type='network'>
       <mac address='52:54:00:51:af:0e'/>
       <source network='passpool-enp2s0f0'/>
       <model type='rtl8139'/>
       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' 
slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
     </interface>
In a win 2008 guest OS is missing drivers for this device 
and I wonder what is that it gets?
>