Description of problem: Note: This is not a problem on Debian, with kvm-72, but apparently is on Red Hat, with kvm-83. It may not even be your bug, but just a serendipitous bug in the Debian ver- sion that just happens to do what Windows expects/is conf- figured to expect, and, since i can fix this pretty easily, i'm mostly just throwing it out here in case it's useful reference for somebody else, as i doubt that this is a re- gression A Windows(TM) XP image created using GHOST that boots up fine on physical hardware (and on Debian, as noted previous- ly) fails to detect the emulated pcnet NIC as the Allied Tele- syn NIC for which it has a driver configured, so networking fails, unless you manually configure the NIC to use the This seems to be because the emulated pcnet NIC reports a PCI subsystem ID of 20000000, whereas the driver wants 00000000, and that's what Debian's KVM/QEMU gives it, as well Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-83-105.el5 How reproducible: Try to run a Windows XP image configured with the Allied Telesyn driver (details below) with -net nic,model=pcnet Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -net nic,model=pcnet 2. 3. Actual results: NIC not found by WinXP driver Expected results: NIC found by WinXP driver Additional info: Driver is Allied Telesyn AT-2450T/AT/BT/FT PCI 10Mb atnicm51.sys version 4.47.0, 7/2/2004
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-2011-0028.html