Bug 583064

This libvirt bug actually appears to be a result of the virtio disk/net drivers not providing correct links in sysfs, not associating to the PCI device.

In this example, eth2 is a virtio device and eth3 is an e1000 device, both are PCI devices.

The virtio device (eth2) does not link to its PCI device:

[root@dhcp-0-232 net]# cd /sys/class/net
[root@dhcp-0-232 net]# ls -al eth2 eth3
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Apr 16 16:06 eth2 -> ../../devices/virtio-pci/virtio2/net/eth2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Apr 16 16:06 eth3 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/net/eth3
[root@dhcp-0-232 net]# ls -al eth2/device eth3/device
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Apr 16 16:09 eth2/device -> ../../../virtio2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Apr 16 16:09 eth3/device -> ../../../0000:00:06.0

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*** Bug 668779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-112.el6

Reproduce this bug with kernel-2.6.32-94.el6.x86_64.

run virsh nodedev-list --tree  inside a virtual machine with 3 virtio nics and 3 virtio blk.

#virsh nodedev-list --tree
computer
 |
  +- block_vda
  +- block_vdb
  +- block_vdc
  +- net_eth0_52_54_00_20_10_67
  +- net_eth1_52_54_00_8d_b0_14
  +- net_eth2_52_54_00_5d_1d_74
  +- net_lo_00_00_00_00_00_00
  +- pci_0000_00_00_0
  +- pci_0000_00_01_0
  +- pci_0000_00_01_1
  |   |
  |   +- scsi_host0
  |   +- scsi_host1
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_01_2
  |   |
  |   +- usb_usb1
  |       |
  |       +- usb_1_0_1_0
  |       +- usb_1_1
  |           |
  |           +- usb_1_1_1_0
  |             
  +- pci_0000_00_01_3
  +- pci_0000_00_02_0
  +- pci_0000_00_03_0
  +- pci_0000_00_04_0
  +- pci_0000_00_05_0
  +- pci_0000_00_06_0
  +- pci_0000_00_07_0
  +- pci_0000_00_08_0
  +- pci_0000_00_09_0
  +- pci_0000_00_0a_0
For result, we can see 3 virtio nics all linked to 'computer' instead of their
respective PCI devices.

Verify this bug with kernel-2.6.32-115.el6.x86_64 as same guest, same configuration.
#virsh nodedev-list --tree 
computer
 |
  +- net_lo_00_00_00_00_00_00
  +- pci_0000_00_00_0
  +- pci_0000_00_01_0
  +- pci_0000_00_01_1
  |   |
  |   +- scsi_host0
  |   +- scsi_host1
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_01_2
  |   |
  |   +- usb_usb1
  |       |
  |       +- usb_1_0_1_0
  |       +- usb_1_1
  |           |
  |           +- usb_1_1_1_0
  |             
  +- pci_0000_00_01_3
  +- pci_0000_00_02_0
  +- pci_0000_00_03_0
  |   |
  |   +- net_eth0_52_54_00_20_10_67
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_04_0
  +- pci_0000_00_05_0
  |   |
  |   +- block_vda
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_06_0
  +- pci_0000_00_07_0
  |   |
  |   +- block_vdb
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_08_0
  |   |
  |   +- block_vdc
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_09_0
  |   |
  |   +- net_eth1_52_54_00_8d_b0_14
  |     
  +- pci_0000_00_0a_0
      |
      +- net_eth2_52_54_00_5d_1d_74

We get expected result, so this bug has been resolved.

Attached dumpxml file of this guest for your reference.

Created attachment 478796 [details]
guest dumpxml

change status to verified based on comment#17

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html