[PVE-User] 2.6.32 kernel - network adapters other than virtio don't work

[Martin Maurer]

hi,

I cannot confirm this, works here without problems. (a wwin2008r2 guest with IDE and e1000).

My detailed version is:
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pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.5-1 (pve-manager/1.5/4561)
running kernel: 2.6.32-1-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.5-2
pve-kernel-2.6.32-1-pve: 2.6.32-2
pve-kernel-2.6.18-1-pve: 2.6.18-2
qemu-server: 1.1-10
pve-firmware: 1.0-2
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-6
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve3
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.11.1-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-1
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Best Regards,

Martin Maurer

martin at proxmox.com
http://www.proxmox.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski
> Sent: Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2009 10:38
> To: Fred Supinski
> Cc: proxmoxve
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] 2.6.32 kernel - network adapters other than
> virtio don't work
> 
> On 23.12.2009 03:37, Fred Supinski wrote:
> > Is it just my deployments, or do non-virtio network adapters prevent
> > guests from posting when using the 2.6.32 kernel?
> 
> It is because when virtio is in use, OpenVZ's "fairsched" is disabled
> (which causes trouble for virtio network cards).
> 
> 2.6.32 does not support OpenVZ, and therefore, kvm binary wants to use
> "fairsched", but doesn't find it and fails.
> 
> The solution is to add a dummy virtio card along the other network card
> (e1000) etc. Then, kvm would not use "fairsched" and everything would
> start properly.
> 
> Unless there are other workarounds I'm not aware of.
> 
> --
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
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