On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:18 +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone interested in a patch for an unstable, though working e1000 > emulation for > QEMU? It is aimed for this chip-set version:
Yes! The e1000 has a lot of interesting features that should make it emulation friendly. > 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet > Controller > > I originally created it very recently to provide a virtual NIC that > supports Jumbo > packets. Unfortunately it appears that the tun driver doesn't implement > change_mtu() so it didn't integrate very well with qemu-kvm. If it proves useful, then there's no reason the tun driver can't be changed. Were you expecting to get a significant performance boost with jumbo frames or was this just a functionality thing? The current emulated nic performance is pretty bad... Regards, Anthony Liguori
