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[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] PCNET NIC card support for qemu

from [Arun Sharma] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] PCNET NIC card support for qemu
From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:03:21 -0700
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
Out of pure curiousity, what's the advantage to emulating the PCNET cared verses the NE2000? It's it more virtualization friendly? Is there better guest OS support? 

Does this bring us closer to being able to do fast binary driver emulation?

Very cool stuff.



pcnet uses DMA. Ne2k doesn't.

        -Arun

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