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 option. Not that it would help anyway - it's a very limited emulation, and the reason I need to get a bridge running. Jerry On 11/12/2016 3:31 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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 without > PCI in the Wheezy era kernels, the option likely ended up set on > vexpress by mistake (i.e. as a consequence of enabling it on other > flavours). > >> Unfortunately, I guess that means we can't use Debian, as I really need >> to get the virtualization working. > > You should be able to use the Jessie armhf/armmp kernel. It's just > Wheezy era where it isn't possible. > > You could also use a non-virtio nic and configure it to meet you needs, > take a looked at the output of "-device ?", it probably contains the > very same nic which is enabled by default and there should be no reason > you can't manually configure that to use the different network config > you want. > > Ian. > > >
