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

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:17:09PM +0100, Mike C. wrote:
> 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!

it looks like xvif29i0 isn't receivng anying.
does netstat -iIxvifli0 show anything ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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