Re: netbsd/amd64 5.1rc4 domU network

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:53:33 +0100 (BST), Stephen Borrill
<netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
>> I'm running a Slackware64 dom0 on top of XEN 4.0.1.  I tryed both
>> xen/next
>> and xen/master kernel repositories, same problem : the NetBSD guest
sees
>> its network interface (xennet0) but it's unusable.  It doesn't ping nor
>> responds to ping.  Another guest, RHEL5 (2.6.18) network works fine.  I
>> tryed both -bridge and -route configurations (I would like to keep the
>> latter), no changes.
> 
> Stab in the dark: lack of copy support in the network frontend? NetBSD 
> currently only has flip support and when attempting to get NetBSD
running 
> as PV guest in XenServer, Citrix said that flip support is deprecated. 
> Symptoms on XenServer were that not only did the guest not have network 
> access, it also stopped all other domUs (and meant the XenServer dom0
had 
> to be powercycled).

Copy support was pulled-up by Manuel about a year ago (see PR/40650):

http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-5.cgi?show=1030

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Jean-Yves Migeon
jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost