Just to be clear - we are sure that it is the virtualization host networking
problems which are triggering this VM OS nic driver crash, and we haven't
described these here anything like well enough to reproduce the situation -
they are complex.
However, in the same situation, a VM with rtl8139 or
We are seeing a reliably reproducible panic when using the E1000 card over
a private network. This crash occurs inside the guest kernel of a VM with
some (we believe) unrelated network connectivity issues, running on
qemu-kvm 1.1.1.
We have seen this on all kernel versions we tested, the earliest
