On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 15:25 +1000, Andrew Stuart wrote:
This is not a question about the development of the Xen hypervisor.
Therefore I've moved xen-devel to bcc and added xen-users to the cc. Please
try and use the correct list in the future.
> As far as I can tell, Xen HVM domu guests detect an
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> boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Cooper
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> To: Andrew Stuart; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen / EC2 network HVM device visibi
On 30/09/15 06:25, Andrew Stuart wrote:
> As far as I can tell, Xen HVM domu guests detect and use the RTL8139 network
> card thus its not a hard requirement to use the PVHVM drivers.
The rtl8139 (or e1000e, depending on configuration) are provided to HVM
guests to cater to a Xen unaware configur
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:25:20PM +1000, Andrew Stuart wrote:
> As far as I can tell, Xen HVM domu guests detect and use the RTL8139
> network card thus its not a hard requirement to use the PVHVM drivers.
>
That's because the default emulated nic in libxl is RTL8139. You can
specify others as w
As far as I can tell, Xen HVM domu guests detect and use the RTL8139 network
card thus its not a hard requirement to use the PVHVM drivers.
On EC2 however, am I right in understanding that although EC2 is using Xen HVM,
the RTL8139 network device is not available and therefore to get networking
