[Users] oVirt Solaris support

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/17/2013 04:39 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 14:38 +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 09/17/2013 02:23 PM, Ren Koch (ovido) wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 19:16 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:39 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and what about the qemu command line produced by virt-manager ?
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>>>>> Good point - here's the command line of Sol11 with virt-manager on this
>>>>> oVirt host:
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>>>>
>>>> Could it be that the
>>>> -cpu Nehalem
>>>>
>>>> in some way can influence the problem? It only appears in oVirt
>>>> generated command line
>>>
>>> Yes, indeed it does (even I have no clue how this can influence
>>> networking).
>>> When adding cpu model to my plain kvm machines libvirt xml network isn't
>>> working anymore.
>>> I'll test with some hook scripts if removing the cpu model will solve
>>> the network issue for my oVirt Solaris guest.
>>> Thanks for the hint.
>>
>> if you can pinpoint and reproduce, probably worth adding the qemu-kvm
>> mailing list
>>
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> I managed to get Solaris networking running when removing cpu model and
> cpu match attributes, which are added by oVirt but not by virt-manager.
>
> I created a hook script (99_fix_solaris) which removes these
> information. Afterwards networking is fine in Solaris guests:
> https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/hooks
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>
> Just one question renaming:
> Is there any downside from oVirt side when removing these cpu
> information like e.g. features aren't working as expected?

it just changes to the qemu_64 cpu model.
this sounds like a bug in qemu (well, or solaris) for one of the 
flags/behaviors with a specific cpu model.
maybe you can ask on 
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss or 
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel

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> Thanks all for the hints.
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> Regards,
> René
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