Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-26 Thread Harald Dunkel
PS: Good news: The rtl8139 seems to be working again. I am not sure what went wrong on the previous sessions. The e1000 virtual NIC still doesn't work. The Solaris guest could grab an IP address from the DHCP server, the address was added to DDNS, but then I could not ping the guest at all. Seems

Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-25 Thread Harald Dunkel
Sorry to say, but it doesn't help to install Solaris once and do a short test. If I just install it, then it works, too, or installation fails. Let me tell you about my production environment: I've got 3 kvm servers, each with 8 cores and 32 GByte or 64 GByte RAM. Each server has a bonding networ

Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
tags 579751 + unreproducible severity 579751 minor thanks 22.05.2010 11:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: 22.05.2010 10:29, Harald Dunkel wrote: [] > I left `ping -f $solaris-ip' process running for whole > night - it were still running in the morning without any > visible issues, at 100% CPU usage (

Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
22.05.2010 10:29, Harald Dunkel wrote: It took me some time to get back into Solaris, too. To change the network driver: After changing the kvm configuration you should boot Solaris at usual. It will complain about some services not being run, and put you into single user mode. It does not ent

Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
It took me some time to get back into Solaris, too. To change the network driver: After changing the kvm configuration you should boot Solaris at usual. It will complain about some services not being run, and put you into single user mode. Now you can run "ifconfig -a" to get the new network dev

Bug#579751: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
21.05.2010 16:36, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 05/12/10 12:41, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work with this Solaris version. Short update: Virtualbox 3.1.6 seems to be more reliable in