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

[geppz]

Emulated NIC is e1000.

I found out that if one reduces the MTU on the client like "ifconfig eth0 mtu 
300" it seems ssh hangs much more rarely (but still hangs, at 300).
Reducing it on the virtualization host bridge is not enough though (unless you 
are initiating ssh from the virtualization host itself)
To trigger the hang, do:
while true ; do dmesg ; done
The higher the allowed MTU, the quicker the hang, e.g. MTU 500 hangs within one 
minute. 1500 hangs instantly.


Command line is the following. Excuse the length... it's a libvirt

LC_ALL=C
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin
QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/local/qemu-kvm-0.14.0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S
-M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name
openindiana1 -uuid ed0b8483-d186-1f39-39ef-97194a1f02bf -nodefconfig
-nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/openindiana1.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -no-acpi -boot c -drive
if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive
file=/dev/mapper/datavg1-openindiana1,if=none,id=drive-
ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=raw,cache=none -device ide-
drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev
tap,fd=54,id=hostnet0 -device
e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:69:b5:89:11,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
-usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-
pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4

I'm available to try patches for a while if somebody can spot the
problem... the host is still not in production.

Thanks for your work

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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