[ovirt-users] Re: Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs on Ovirt 4.4.10

Hi Thomas I've also checked 4.4.9 with "additional" drivers grabbed from ElRepo, on both Gen8/9. I'm still on 4.4.9, on RHVH hosts and oVirt nodes. No problems until now, since November. Roberto Il Sab 16 Apr 2022, 20:23 Thomas Kamalakis <thkam(a)hua.gr&gt; ha scritto: > Hi Roberto > > We also used the ElRepo drivers in production - most of our e-learning > servers including BBB are on oVirt Gen8 hosts. No problems whatsoever > > The problem is that I could not find drivers for the kernel version of > the 4.4.10 release. > > Thomas > > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2022, 19:58 Roberto Nunin, <robnunin(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> My cent. >> >> I've used both Gen8 and Gen9 with ElRepo drivers, in light production, >> without any problem, more than 2 years. >> >> Also qla2xxx driver was from ElRepo, being cluster with FC storage. >> >> >> Roberto >> >> Il Gio 14 Apr 2022, 08:04 Thomas Kamalakis <thkam(a)hua.gr&gt; ha scritto: >> >>> Thanks Darrell >>> >>> I think I understand your point, but it looks to me like such a >>> bother to have to do things like this. I will try starting from 4.4.9. >>> >>> Could a solution be to install Debian and run kvm to install the >>> ovirt-node? I guess you waste some resources doing this but maybe worth it >>> if you can skip all this kernel business. >>> >>> BR >>> >>> Thomas >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:35 PM Darrell Budic <budic(a)onholyground.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I hit this too, RH appears to have limited the supported PCI ids in >>>> their be2net and no longer includes the Emulex OneConnect in the list of >>>> supported IDs. I switched to the EL repo mainline kernels to resolve the >>>> issue on existing systems, it was a bit more fun on systems needing new >>>> installs of 8.x. I think I settled on installing an older system, switching >>>> kernels, and then upgrading to current. >>>> >>>> Good luck, >>>> >>>> -Darrell >>>> >>>> > On Apr 13, 2022, at 12:12 AM, thkam(a)hua.gr wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Hi >>>> > >>>> > We have a large number of HP servers where we use Ovirt and we are >>>> having problems upgrading the nodes to Ovirt 4.4.10 >>>> > >>>> > More specifically the servers have the Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs >>>> and what we did in previous Ovirt node installations was to download the >>>> driver rpm (e.g. kmod-be2net-12.0.0.0-8.el8_5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm) and then >>>> install it using "rpm -ivh ... " and carrying out "modprobe be2net" >>>> > >>>> > For 4.18.0-365 we could not find a separate rpm but it looks like >>>> this was included in kernel-modules-4.18.0-365.el8.x86_64.rpm ( >>>> https://centos.pkgs.org/8-stream/centos-baseos-x86_64/kernel-modules-4.18...) >>>> which is already installed. "modprobe be2net" produces no errors but the >>>> network interfaces do not show up in "ip -a" even after reboot. >>>> > >>>> > Are we missing something here, or is our infrastructure unusable >>>> with 4.4.10? Things were working for 4.4.9. >>>> > >>>> > Thanks! >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>>> > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>>> > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>>> > oVirt Code of Conduct: >>>> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>>> > List Archives: >>>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/AFSJ76ZGLMM... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Thomas Kamalakis >>> Professor and Dean of the School of Digital Technology >>> Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of >>> Athens, Greece >>> Omirou 9, Tavros, Athens, GR17778, Tel: +302109549406, >>> Web: https://galaxy.hua.gr/~thkam, Github: >>> https://github.com/thomaskamalakis/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>> oVirt Code of Conduct: >>> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>> List Archives: >>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/D7LC6BMGWM4... >>> >>