Hmm, as what do we mark this bug correctly.
Unless there is further input/discussion this might be "opinion" for now?
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Status: New => Opinion
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I second Ryans opinion on this.
Especially older guests and the mentioned Windows guests are lost without e1000
being the default.
OTOH all arguments for virtio are true.
The breaking working commandline is prior art, as it was done around 2013
switching from RTL8139 to e1000.
So I think it
I don't think so.
>From a hypervisor perspective, general function I think is more
important than running as fast as possible. Historically users have
always enabled additional speed by swapping out emulated devices for
paravirtual ones.
For users of the command line, changing the default will
