[Qemu-devel] [Bug 638955] Re: emulated netcards don't work with recent sunos kernel

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I have this problem (as describe in OP) on a Solaris 11.2 install using
the text iso.  Archlinux Qemu 2.1.0.  It appears that the above patch
has been applied to qemu for some time now (its also in my version).

Are there any new workarounds?

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Title:
  emulated netcards don't work with recent sunos kernel

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  hi there,

  i'm using qemu-kvm backend in version: # qemu-kvm -version
  QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 
Fabrice Bellard

  and there are just *not working any of model=$type with combinations
  of recent sunos (solaris, openindiana, opensolaris, ..) ..

  you can download for testing purposes iso from here: http://dlc-
  origin.openindiana.org/isos/147/ or from here:
  http://genunix.org/distributions/indiana/ << osol and oi are also
  bubuntu-like *live cds, so no need to bother with installing

  behaviour is as follows:
  e1000 - receiving doesn't work, transmitting works .. dladm (tool for handle 
ethers) shows that is all ok, correct mode is loaded up, it just seems like 
this driver works at 100% but ..

  rtl8169|pcnet - works in 10Mbit mode with several other issues like
  high cpu utilization and so .. dladm is unable to recognize options
  for this kind of -nic

  others - just don't work

  .. i experienced this issue several times in past .. woraround was,
  that rtl8169 worked so-so .. with recent sunos kernel it doesn't.

  it's easy to reproduce, this is why i'm not putting here more then
  launching script for my virtual machine:

  # cat openindiana.sh
  qemu-kvm -hda /home/kvm/openindiana/openindiana.img -m 2048 -localtime -cdrom 
/home/kvm/+images/oi-dev-147-x86.iso -boot d \
  -vga std -vnc :9 -k en-us -monitor 
unix:/home/kvm/openindiana/instance,server,nowait \
  -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=1 -net tap,ifname=oi0,script=no,vlan=1 &

  sleep 2;
  ip l set oi0 up;
  ip a a 192.168.99.9/24 dev oi0;

  regards by daniel

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