Re: NIC type (rtl vs virtio)

On 19.11.2012 14:56, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>  On 11/18/2012 08:22 PM, Nux! wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I notice the VMs are not using the virtio type NICs, but some 
> > "Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+".
> > In my experience the virtio device is quite stable, any reason why 
> > it's not default? I see that for block device virtio is default.
>
>
>  This is something we should look at changing by default I think.
>  There have are some kernel bugs precluding this:
>  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42829
>  But Red Hat based kernels should be good in this area.
>
>  It seems like it's a big global flag in nova.conf currently:
>    libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges = True
>  Ideally that would be a property of the guest image,
>  i.e. a tag in glance or something.
>
>  thanks,
>  Pádraig. 
Thanks Pádraig, that worked!

Indeed I understand virtio_net is not default due to some ubuntu kernel 
bugs or such like.

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