Re: PCI passthrough issue

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:38:49PM +0100, Jean Baptiste Favre wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm facing a strange issue with network card PCI passthrough on my
> openwrt test domU.
> 
> - With network PCI passthrough, DNS lookup failed for some domains
> (exemple, google.com) but not for other (free.fr my ISP, or my domain
> jbfavre.org). I can ping an IP address without any problem.

Do you have "both" (so PCI passthrough and the Xen network driver)
in the guest? If so, have you tried eliminating the xen network driver
to see if it is just a routing issue?

What does your routing table look like? Your IP table?

> 
> - Starting domU as a "normal" (ie without PCI passthrough), no problem.
> 
> 
> As far as I can say, domU is not the root cause. I really think this is
> related to PCI passsthrough. This seems to be related to packet length.

Then that would imply the MTU is not set right. 
> 
> Did not see anything strange in dom0 logs.
> 
> Is there any incompatibility between 2.6.32 dom0 kernel with Xen 4.0.1
> and 2.6.37 domU kernel ?

No.
> 
> Regards,
> JB
> 
> Dom0: Debian Squeeze
> # uname -a
> Linux remus 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
> # dpkg -l|grep hyper
> ii  xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64                           4.0.1-1
> 
> DomU: Openwrt backfire
> # uname -a
> Linux OpenWrt 2.6.37
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> sky2                   35744  0
> All Xen related stuff is integrated into the kernel, not compiled as module.
> 
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