[PLUG] Needed: Virtual OS Driver [UPDATE]

[Don Buchholz]

On 6/26/2016 5:49 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Don Buchholz wrote:
>> What distro is this?  Can you run the "virt-manager" GUI tool?
>     Slackware-14.1/x86_64.

Umm, OK.  I've been doing quite a bit of (simple) KVM work
w/ Fedora/RHEL-6.x/RHEL-7.x lately.  If you're in a Red Hat
environment, and not used to KVM, the 'virt-manger' GUI
can sure simplify things.  I'm not sure that Slackware
supportsit though ...

>> Rather than 'virtio_net' have you tried specifying an emulated
>> hardware option (e.g. have the QEMU/KVM system tell it's VM
>> that's actually an Intel 'e1000' device)?
>>
>>     No. I haven't. I'll look for more on the qemu document site tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rich