Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:02:02PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 05:53 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to make Xen-4.1.0 work on kernels mentioned in the
>>> subject, without much sucess. HVM guests are not affected, only PV.
>>>
>>
>> Below you mention gentoo xenlinux patches..
>>
>> So please be more specific about which kernel was vanilla (pvops),
>> and which kernels had some external patches applied..
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>
> Sorry, both kernels in subject were vanilla from kernel.org, with xen  
> options selected for dom0 usage.
> I only wanted to point out that networking works if i use kernel patched  
> with rebased gentoo patches.
> I am talking only about dom0 kernel here, domU kernel does not seem to  
> be the source of the problem.
>

OK. What kernel is the PV domU running? What Xen version are you using? 4.1 ?

-- Pasi

>
>>> Error that i see in dmesg on the domU:
>>> XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vif/0 (state 1)
>>>
>>> ifconfig -a on domU shows MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>
>>> dom0 doesn't have any vif/tap interfaces assigned to domU when i do
>>> brctl show or ifconfig -a
>>>
>>> I don't see any errors worth mentioning in /var/log/xen, except mybe
>>> these two:
>>>
>>> /tmp/SBo/xen-4.1.0/tools/ioemu-qemu-xen/hw/xen_blktap.c:628: Init blktap
>>> pipes
>>> Could not open /var/run/tap/qemu-read-2
>>>
>>> Problem goes away when i boot 2.6.34.7 (it is the last kernel that i
>>> have built with gentoo rebased patches).
>>>
>>> If there is something i can do to help debug this please do let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> mario
>>>
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