Thanks! I just joined and registered on the server. It will be good to have that available :)

Please could you guide me through that? How would I check that its set to e1000? I looked at the xml and and the model type is e1000, but again, I’m not sure im looking in the right place. Up to now I have been rawdogging qemu, so im not that familiar with virt-manager

I considered that, and the reason I decided to go with the method I chose was twofold:

1. I of course need to be safe - that means I don’t want to run unsafe kernel code on my main machine, so a virtual machine makes sense. I could use one of my old laptops as both a host and target machine, but honestly I have my main machine set up just how I like it for development so I would probably end up using it for writing the actual code anyway. I suppose I could have one of my laptops be the target and pull code from github (exactly what I was planning to do with the virtual machine just with real hardware).

2. I didn’t want to introduce more problems than would naturally occur when going through the book while learning, by adding the fact that I have a great mismatch in kernel versions, which would undoubtedly change the APIs a great deal. I learn better when I can focus on getting comfortable with one thing at the beginning, and then building from there. If its not as tragic as I imagine it though (the mountain looks larger before you start the climb) I would definitely prefer getting comfortable with the modern kernel as ultimately that’s what I plan to develop on (this all started because I want to fix some stuff with my Genesis Xenon 770 mouse that I’m unhappy with currently).

However, I am open to the idea. Could you direct me to any resources you found helpful specifically for adapting what you read/learn in that book, to the modern kernel? Or any other helpful resources really, anything would be helpful at this point. Discords, forums, wikis, whatever you have :)

I’ve got it set up like that. In my NIC section, under device model, the selected option is e1000e, but still no eth0 interface or anything other than lo and sit0

Edit: unless I misunderstood and that’s not enough to use the e1000 driver