Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device
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.
>
>
>
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