NIC models for HVM guests in Xen 4.0

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Published on 2011-07-05T21:23:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/10 3:40 UTC
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Is there a list of NIC models that I should use with various HVM guests in Xen 4.0? Is there even a list of possible choices for the model=field? I'm planning on running both Windows and FreeBSD guests on the particular Xen box that I'm configuring now, and ideally I'd like a setting that can work on both of them and get me gigabit speeds without a lot of extra hassle loading special drivers (similar to VMware's e1000 NIC option). Any suggestions?

The vif line I'm currently using in my config is:

vif = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=eth0,model=ne2k_pci,script=vif-ovs' ]

This works in my Windows XP SP3 VM, but is only recognized as a 10Mbit interface. Changing to model=e1000 or model=i82557b resulted in Windows not being able to find a driver for the NIC.

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