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basic virtio-net driver, located in OvmfPkg/VirtioNetDxe.

* Also independently of the iPXE NIC drivers, Intel's proprietary E1000 NIC
driver (from the BootUtil distribution) can be embedded in the OVMF image at
build time:
driver can be embedded in the OVMF image at build time:

- Download BootUtil:
- Download Intel Ethernet Adapter Driver Pack:
- Navigate to
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19186/Ethernet-Intel-Ethernet-Connections-Boot-Utility-Preboot-Images-and-EFI-Drivers
- Click the download link for "PREBOOT.EXE".
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/15084/intel-ethernet-adapter-complete-driver-pack.html
- Select version 23.5.2 and click the download link for "23_5_2.zip".
- Accept the Intel Software License Agreement that appears.
- Unzip "PREBOOT.EXE" into a separate directory (this works with the
"unzip" utility on platforms different from Windows as well).
- Unzip "23_5_2.zip" into a separate directory.
- Copy the "APPS/EFI/EFIx64/E3522X2.EFI" driver binary to
"Intel3.5/EFIX64/E3522X2.EFI" in your WORKSPACE.

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* When a matching iPXE driver is configured for a NIC as described above, it
takes priority over other drivers that could possibly drive the card too:

| e1000 ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 virtio-net-pci
---------------------+------------------------------------------------
iPXE | x x x x x
VirtioNetDxe | x
Intel BootUtil (X64) | x
| e1000 ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 virtio-net-pci
------------------------+------------------------------------------------
iPXE | x x x x x
VirtioNetDxe | x
Intel E3522X2.EFI (X64) | x

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