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RE: [Xen-devel] xen 4.1 rc2 test report ( 5new issues found)

On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 02:27 +0000, Zheng, Shaohui wrote:
> > > 2. Guest network broken after do SAVE/RESTOR with xl (Community)
> > > http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1703
> > 
> > cannot reproduce this bug
> > 
> After save/restore guest OS, We can not ping any address, we need to run 
> dhclient to re-fetch an IP address, and the network works again.
> The expected result is that guest network still working after restore it.

Sounds like another redhat distro bug. The guest kernel must be
deliberately nuking the IP information on save/restore but then not
doing anything to trigger the network scripts to re-run dhcp. If that is
indeed the case then there's not much we can do about that on the xen
side.

Gianni


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