Bug 653343
| Summary: | Cannot hot-plug nic in windows VM when the vmem is larger | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | aarcange, gyue, juzhang, lihuang, llim, michen, mkenneth, ndai, plyons, pm-eus, snagar, tburke, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
When running a virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory, an attempt to hot plug a network interface controller (NIC) failed with the following error message:
Device '[device_name]' could not be initialized
This update resolves this issue, and hot-plugging a NIC in a virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory no longer fails.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-01-10 16:09:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 633699 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-11-15 09:49:55 UTC
Reproduced on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.3 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.0.0 -enable-kvm -m 3G -smp 4 -monitor stdio -rtc base=localtime -usbdevice tablet -drive file=/root/zhangjunyi/win2008r2-64.raw,if=none,format=raw,werror=stop,rerror=stop,id=drive-virtio0-0-0,boot=on,cache=none -device ide-drive,drive=drive-virtio0-0-0,id=virtio0-0-0 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=20:20:20:56:42:19 -cpu qemu64,+x2apic -vnc :10 -boot c QEMU 0.12.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) netdev_add tap,id=hostnet2 /etc/qemu-ifup: could not launch network script Device 'tap' could not be initialized Verified on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.5,passed. I tried the following configuration 1. THP on 2. THP off
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When running a virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory, an attempt to hot plug a network interface controller (NIC) failed with the following error message:
Device '[device_name]' could not be initialized
This update resolves this issue, and hot-plugging a NIC in a virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory no longer fails.
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/RHBA-2011-0012.html |