network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel
2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work
with this Solaris version.

e1000 and pcnet work just by chance, as it seems. I can ping
the guest (even though some packets are lost). I cannot use
ssh to login.

rtl8139 and ne2k_pci are not listed by "ifconfig -a" on the
guest.

Solaris 10u6 worked fine (using e1000).

Can anybody reproduce this problem?


Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated. Of course
I would be glad to help to track this down.

Harri

Re: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

[Harald Dunkel]

On 05/12/10 12:41, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel
> 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work
> with this Solaris version.
> 

Short update: Virtualbox 3.1.6 seems to be more reliable in
this case.


Regards

Harri

Re: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

[Michael Tokarev]

21.05.2010 16:36, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 05/12/10 12:41, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel
>> 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work
>> with this Solaris version.
>
> Short update: Virtualbox 3.1.6 seems to be more reliable in
> this case.

I forgot to send my testing results.

I installed solaris from sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso.
It were with the default rtl8138 NIC, and the installer
configured rtls0 interface (so it actually at least
recognizable).

I left `ping -f $solaris-ip' process running for whole
night - it were still running in the morning without any
visible issues, at 100% CPU usage (2 cores - for ping,
host kernel and kvm processes).

Now, it looks like I forgot solaris enough to being unable
to set up new network driver, so I can't easily switch to
e1000.  Maybe reinstall will be faster for me.

So, basically, I can't reproduce the issue.

/mjt