RHEL8: Supported virtualization network drivers

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The e1000 network driver has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This driver should not be deployed in production systems.

Red Hat strongly encourages customers to use the virtio_net driver as the preferred driver to manage network functions. This driver is hardware agnostic and offers better performance over the legacy para-virtualized e1000 driver. Red Hat is working with v...

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