[Users] oVirt 3.2 and Solaris 10 guests

[Jean-Francois Saucier]

I can confirm the same issue with Solaris 11 and oVirt 3.1. Everything
seems OK, my network card is configured correctly (static IP) but cannot
communicate with anyone.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:46 AM, René Koch (ovido) <r.koch at ovido.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a strange network issue with Solaris 10 x86 guests on oVirt 3.2
> (beta) with an CentOS 6.3 hypervisor (using dreyou's repository for VDSM
> packages).
>
> My host configuration is the following:
> Operating system: Other
> Network interface type: rtl8139
> Network Name: ovirtmgmt
> Disk interface: IDE
>
> Disk is working fine and the network interface is detected by Solaris 10
> guest, as I can see a rtls0 interface with "ifconfig -a" and Solaris
> installer also detects this interface.
>
> But when I try to send packages over this interface they never reach a
> target - e.g. ping the gateway and "arp -an" doesn't show it's MAC
> address. On the hypervisor I can see vnet(x) interface is on ovirtmgmt
> bridge. Network traffic is working fine for all other VMs (RHEL 6 and
> Fedora 18) on ovirtmgmt bridge.
>
> Btw, when creating a Solaris 10 guest on RHEV 3.1 with RHEL 6.3
> hypervisor the exactly same issue occurs - network interface is detected
> but no traffic passes this interface.
>
> On a plain KVM-Host (RHEL 6.3) I can create a Solaris 10 host with
> virt-manager using rtl8139 Virtual Network Interface Device model on a
> bridge (network setup is nearly the same as for oVirt and RHEV). On this
> RHEL 6.3 KVM-host network is working fine for Solaris guests.
>
> In the process list (ps -ef) the settings for oVirt and RHEL-KVM seem
> the be nearly the same (different fd's and option bootindex=3 is missing
> on KVM):
>
> oVirt 3.2:
> -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet0 -device
>
> rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:00:64:9e,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,bootindex=3
>
> RHEL 6.3 KVM:
> -netdev tap,fd=36,id=hostnet0 -device
> rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:8e:3a:57,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
>
> KVM-Version is exactly the same on CentOS-oVirt-Hypervisor as on RHEL
> KVM-host:
> # rpm -qa | grep kvm
> qemu-kvm-rhev-tools-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.10.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.10.x86_64
>
> Do you have any clue why Solaris networking isn't working on oVirt but
> on RHEL-KVM it is?
>
> I didn't try Fedora 18 or oVirt Node as a hypervisor yet - don't think
> that there will be a difference.
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> René Koch
>
>
>
>
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