Bug 308201

Summary: rtl8139 NIC doesn't work in Windows Vista
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat>
Component: kvmAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 35-3.fc7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Fix checksum for Vista none

Description Max Kanat-Alexander 2007-09-26 23:18:34 UTC 
libvirt hardcodes the "nic" parameter to qemu, but Vista needs a different
"model" argument, as described here:

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Vista_Networking_Workaround?highlight=%28vista%29

When I modify the qemu_conf.c to add that model line, networking works in Vista.

This is a problem at least as of libvirt-0.3.2-1.fc7, qemu 0.9.0-2.fc7, and
kvm-35-2.fc7.
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-26 23:34:17 UTC 
No, modifying the libvirt driver to hardcode it to ne2k is not an acceptable
change because it breaks other OS for which rtl8139 *is* the best choice. ie all
Linux guests. The correct solution is to fix the RTL8139 driver in QEMU/KVM.

IIRC there were recently some fixes applied to upstream QEMU specifically for
Vista support. I'll try and find them so we can fix the real problem rather than
hacking around it.
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-26 23:37:40 UTC 
Created attachment 207741 [details]
Fix checksum for Vista

Attaching the patch from upstream

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg11365.html
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-27 00:12:58 UTC 
Please re-test with either the i386 or x86_64 experimental KVM  RPM builds I've
done containing the patch from comment #2:

x86_64  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=176240
i386    http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=176241


If it works with Vista's RTL8139 driver, I'll apply to the real build in Fedora
updates.
Comment 4 Max Kanat-Alexander 2007-09-27 01:19:40 UTC 
Yes, that fixes it on my x86_64 machine. :-) Thank you.
Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-27 03:23:14 UTC 
Submitted kvm-35-3.fc7 to F-7 updates-testing with the fix.
Comment 6 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-27 03:48:22 UTC 
Also submitted qemu-0.9.0-3.fc7 to updates-testing, and both kvm & qemu to
rawhide, and queued fixed for Xen.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-09-28 21:19:48 UTC 
kvm-35-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2007-09-28 21:19:53 UTC 
qemu-0.9.0-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2007-10-03 21:11:58 UTC 
kvm-35-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2007-10-03 21:12:04 UTC 
qemu-0.9.0-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Max Kanat-Alexander 2007-10-07 00:24:59 UTC 
Okay, it looks as though the problem actually still persists. 

I accidentally thought things worked, but they don't, it seems. I can't get a
DHCP response inside a Vista VM, and with a static IP I can't ping my router (I
get Destination Host Unreachable).
Comment 12 Max Kanat-Alexander 2007-10-07 00:27:09 UTC 
Oh, wait, I'm sorry. It was just an iptables problem--I forget every time I
start the VM that I have to disable iptables because I'm using a physical bridge.