[Qemu-devel] Re: kvm: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

19.05.2010 21:09, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 04:46 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>> 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 even listed by "ifconfig -a" on
>> the guest.
>>
>> Solaris 10u6 worked fine (using the e1000 emulation). Same for
>> the Linux guests.
>>
> Does opensolaris exhibit the the same problems? If so, you can probably
> bisect the driver to find the change that broke the device. With that we
> can probably deduce if it is the device or driver that is broken, and
> what the issue is.

I verified this right after Harald posted his original
bugreport against debian qemu-kvm package (*).  No,
opensolaris does NOT shows this bug.

I even tried solaris install image -- sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso,
but it works here as far as I can see.  I performed only basic
tests however, -- basically because I just don't remember how
to _use_ solaris (it's been about 10 years ago), and can only
do some telnet/ping/ftp.

(*) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579751

/mjt