Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device
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.
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