RE: FW: [Bug 117] New: [KVM-IPF] RTL8139 emulated network card can not work

Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>> "Xiantao" = Zhang, Xiantao <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Xiantao> Hi, guys With latest kvm commits, our QA team reported this
> Xiantao> bug when using RTL8139 for guests, but guests can work well
> Xiantao> with emulated e1000 NIC. It should be a regression issue, any
> Xiantao> volunteer to take it and find the rootcause ? Thanks!
> Xiantao> Xiantao
> 
> Hi Xiantao,
> 
> I've never had luck with the rtl8139 driver on ia64, always been using
> the e1000 emulation. We probably should try and track it down, but
> since the e1000 is far more performant, it's probably not a big thing.

> That said, did anyone ever get more than 2 cpus in SMP mode to boot
> without hanging?

Hi, Jes
	Didn't you boot smp guests with more than 1 vcpu ? To me, I have
benn always using 4vcpus for booting guests, and didn't find any issue
before.  
Thanks
Xiantao