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From: Mario <mario@slackverse.org>
Subject: Re: PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7 pvops
	dom0 kernels
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:09:38 +0200
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On 05/16/2011 03:06 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:04 +0100, Mario wrote:
>> So you are telling me that 2.6.38 does not have a working networking on
>> PV guests, but HVM does?
>
> Yes, netback did not go upstream until 2.6.39 so PV networking (either
> for PV or HVM guests with PV drivers) will not work on mainline kernels
> before that.
>
> Emulated HVM networking does not use netback so that will work on
> earlier kernels (it depends on qemu)
>
> Ian.
>

Ok, thanks, it all makes more sense now. :-)