Re: PCI passthrough not working with bhyve and NetBSD

I tried the install CD for the latest HEAD-201807121210Z.

It can see both the NICs, but they don't work.

Trying to configure them with DHCP, it looks as if the NIC is sending a DISCOVERY but timing out never receiving anything back (I doubt that it is actually sending anything on the wire).

Then it constantly throws this on the console: "wm0: device timeout (lost interrupt)".

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 8:34 PM Farid Joubbi <djfarid%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

I have a working configuration for NetBSD on bhyve. It's not a problem with vm-bhyve https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

NetBSD 7.1.2 does not initiate the bge0 nor wm0 at all under bhyve, as I wrote earlier.
It seems to run perfectly fine other than that.
The "normal" vioif0 works fine.

I tried NetBSD 8.0 RC2.
It finds both NICs! All of a sudden I feel hope ;-)
Unfortunately I can only get link-local addresses on both NICs.
And I also get this printed on the console every now and then: "bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting".

I will try and get it to NetBSD-current and see.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM Travis Paul <Tr%vispaul.me@localhost> wrote:

> On 9 Jul 2018, at 5:58 AM, Farid Joubbi <djfarid%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> After reading it, I realize that the learning curve for me to understand what is going on is a bit too steep.
> I know only some basic C programming from university courses several years ago.
> This kind of learning was not what I had in mind when I figured that I want to run a new NetBSD installation this summer... ;-(

FWIW, NetBSD runs fine on Bhyve without PCI passthru. I'm running a few NetBSD 7 and 8 VMs on FreeBSD 11.

I can share some commands to get a NetBSD system up if you're interested but I'm not using PCI passthru so I can't assist there.

Best,
Travis