WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

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

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7
From: Mario <mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:20:25 +0200
Cc: todd.deshane@xxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Sun, 15 May 2011 10:21:19 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20110515170345.GP32595@xxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <4DCFC8BB.9030201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20110515155322.GM32595@xxxxxxxxxxx> <4DCFF8FA.8020409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20110515161203.GN32595@xxxxxxxxxxx> <4DCFFE2B.4040302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20110515163444.GO32595@xxxxxxxxxxx> <4DD00235.1090207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20110515170345.GP32595@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10
On 05/15/2011 07:03 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0200, Mario wrote:
On 05/15/2011 06:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mario wrote:


On 05/15/2011 06:12 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:02:02PM +0200, Mario wrote:
On 05/15/2011 05:53 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Mario wrote:
Hey everyone,

I have been trying to make Xen-4.1.0 work on kernels mentioned in the
subject, without much sucess. HVM guests are not affected, only PV.


Below you mention gentoo xenlinux patches..

So please be more specific about which kernel was vanilla (pvops),
and which kernels had some external patches applied..

-- Pasi


Sorry, both kernels in subject were vanilla from kernel.org, with xen
options selected for dom0 usage.
I only wanted to point out that networking works if i use kernel patched
with rebased gentoo patches.
I am talking only about dom0 kernel here, domU kernel does not seem to
be the source of the problem.


OK. What kernel is the PV domU running? What Xen version are you using? 4.1 ?

-- Pasi


Well, i have tried following kernels in domU:

2.6.31.6 (i got this one from stacklet)
2.6.37.6-domU
2.6.33.4-domU

Are these pvops/vanilla or with some patches?

Those are pvops/vanilla, no patches.



2.6.38.6-xen (dom0 kernel)
2.6.34.7-xen (dom0 kernel)
2.6.39-rc7-xen (dom0 kernel)

None of them made any difference, they were all complaining about vif.
Yeah, I am running Xen 4.1


Are you using xm/xend or xl/libxl toolstack?

I am using xl/libxl with Xen 4.1


Ok. Have you tried Jeremy's xen.git xen/stable-2.6.32.x as a dom0 kernel?
It would be interesting to know if that works for you or not.

-- Pasi


I haven't, and since gentoo patched one works at the moment, I will stick to using that, since previously it has been working flawlessly. If I get some more time for testing, i will try Jeremy's, but seeing that I am not the only one with this issue (Erwan reported the same problem) you should be able to get to the bottom of this without me, if you care about it anyway.





-- Pasi



Error that i see in dmesg on the domU:
XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vif/0 (state 1)

ifconfig -a on domU shows MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00

dom0 doesn't have any vif/tap interfaces assigned to domU when i do
brctl show or ifconfig -a

I don't see any errors worth mentioning in /var/log/xen, except mybe
these two:

/tmp/SBo/xen-4.1.0/tools/ioemu-qemu-xen/hw/xen_blktap.c:628: Init blktap
pipes
Could not open /var/run/tap/qemu-read-2

Problem goes away when i boot 2.6.34.7 (it is the last kernel that i
have built with gentoo rebased patches).

If there is something i can do to help debug this please do let me know.


Best regards,
mario

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>