From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dor Laor Subject: Re: paravirtualized windows net driver stop after some days on XP guest Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:47 +0300 Message-ID: <48B40FD7.1090200@il.qumranet.com> References: <48B3C3FF.5020602@univ-nantes.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Yannick GRATON , Yoann Juet To: Yann Dupont Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:30061 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753564AbYHZOOf (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:14:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48B3C3FF.5020602@univ-nantes.fr> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Can you please try an update version of the windows drivers? I also added a dummy installer you can use too: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/VirtioWindowsDrivers Regards, Dor Yann Dupont wrote: > Hello. I'm using kvm whit great succes for various OS. Very good job. > > In June I started using paravirtualized drivers. > > Since that we encountered sporadic loss of connectivity on some Xp > guests after some days of uptime. > This was with KVM 70. I upgraded to KVM 73 4 days ago, and this morning > 1 off my Xp guests had no connectivity. > > Putting the interface off then on via panel control revives network > instantly. Seems like a bug on the windows driver side . > This is occurring on 2 Xp guests, they have moderate to low network load. > > They have 1 CPU , the hal is the non acpi one (because they were > installed in KVM-23 timeframe) > > I also have 2003 guests, and so far I haven't encountered the problem. > > Also have linux guests, with net AND disk virtio , AND high load without > problem. > Best Regards, >