Re: Reboot on *DOM0* while/after installing GPLPV drivers

["Mike C." <miguelmclara%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 10/21/13 18:25, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:37:45PM +0000, John Hayward wrote:
>> I think this patch fixed the disk driver failure to prevent crash of dom0 
>> but did not address the underlying problem of the driver to properly 
>> register.  I have not had time to verify this.
> 
> the PV drivers works fine with XP/2003. I don't have anything newer to test
> with ...
> 
>> starting win7 on NetBSD-5.1.2 dom0 of:
>> ====
>> xenstore-read: couldn't read path /local/domain/0/backend/vif/22/0/vifname
> 
> This may, or may not be a problem.
> 
>> ====
>> This occures both before and after I install the pci and network drivers.
>> Before install of network drivers windows reports a realtek ethernet device
>> After install of network drivers windows reports Xen Net Device Driver
>> It does have the correct mac address.
>> The interface does not get an IP via dhcp - if manually configured it still 
>> cannot ping the default router for the network it should be on.
> 
> What does ifconfig and brconfig show for the virtual interface on
> the dom0 side ?
> 

Mine shows:
xvif29i0: flags=8923<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
mtu 1500
        capabilities=2800<TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
        enabled=0
        address: 00:16:3e:4f:5c:6e
        inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe4f:5c6e%xvif29i0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x25

Seems ok

And brconfig -a
# brconfig -a

bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING>
        Configuration:
                priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
                ipfilter disabled flags 0x0
        Interfaces:
                xvif29i0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
                        port 37 priority 128
                tap0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
                        port 36 priority 128
                xvif1i0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
                        port 6 priority 128
                re1 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
                        port 2 priority 128
        Address cache (max cache: 100, timeout: 1200):
                dc:71:44:3e:b2:c9 re1 1120 flags=0<>
                60:a4:4c:28:13:c0 re1 1117 flags=0<>
                f4:ce:46:ee:1b:f0 re1 589 flags=0<>
                24:db:ac:8c:bf:7b re1 585 flags=0<>
                00:16:3e:52:3e:cf xvif1i0 217 flags=0<>
                24:db:ac:8c:c4:df re1 86 flags=0<>
                00:16:3e:4e:5c:6e tap0 18446744073709551576 flags=0<>
                ac:81:12:35:79:73 re1 18446744073709551539 flags=0<>
                e0:06:e6:aa:bf:5b re1 18446744073709551534 flags=0<>


xvifli0 is a FreeBSD DomU which is working fine!