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 "can" be done, but if so should be an industry wide decision at upstream. Yet I do not expect to see that happen anytime soon - for that you'd want to have all windows iso/guests (maybe more others as well) to have virtio drivers, which I don't see coming. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776696 Title: sensible default NIC for x86? (virtio, not e1000) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1776696/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
