Re: kern/41679 (Lots of re0: watchdog timeout using qemu/kvm)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41679; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/41679 (Lots of re0: watchdog timeout using qemu/kvm)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 01:11:43 +0000

 On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:50:00PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
  >> Problem also affects when running as HVM domU under XenServer
  >> where it is not possible to change from re(4).
  >  
  >  There is a workaround for XenServer to enable switching to wm(4):
  >  
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/329848-openbsd-with-message-watchdog-timeout/
  >  
  >  However, this does require patching vendor-provided files in all your 
  >  dom0s that the VM may run on (could be a significant number in a XenServer 
  >  pool) and the files may be replaced without warning when applying a 
  >  hotfix.
 
 That sounds like we should indeed fix the issue.
 
 ...not that I know anything about re(4) or can do it myself :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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