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Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7 pvops dom

To: Mario <mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7 pvops dom0 kernels
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:06:56 +0100
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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.


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