Thanks, I had just found this out and was writing about it. Apparently, KVM or the distributions have changed the default from ne2k. Either way, rtl8139 works in real machines so it is unclear whether the problem is a bug in OpenBSD or QEMU. 4.3 is affected as well.
2008/8/7 william dunand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/7 Jordi Beltran Creix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I tried to run a recent i386 4.4 beta on a KVM/QEMU virtual machine >> under Ubuntu and there are some problems with the emulated network. >> The driver constantly reports timeouts. >>> re0: watchdog timeout >> As a side effect the connection is very slow. I assume that doesn't >> happen on the actual hardware that QEMU is supposed to emulate, but >> other OSes don't have the same problem. > > I had this problem too. > qemu allows you to work around it easily just by changing the model of > the emulated network card. > "ne2k_pci" is working just fine. > > Cheers, > William
