Description of problem: I booted up a guest with virtio nic, change the MTU of guest nic and tap device to 65520(max MTU of virtio nic), and added an arp entry on host, then ping guest from host, but guest abnormally quit. Qemu outputted : "virtio-net truncating packet" # ping $guest_ip -I virtio_0_6001 -s 65492 -M do PING 10.66.84.205 (10.66.84.205) from 10.66.85.217 virtio_0_6001: 65492(65520) bytes of data. ping: sendmsg: No such device ping: sendmsg: No such device ping: sendmsg: No such device ping: sendmsg: No such device ping: sendmsg: No such device ping: sendmsg: No such device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): host kernel: 2.6.18-203.el5 guest kernel: 2.6.9-89.28.ELsmp # rpm -qa |grep kvm etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5 kvm-qemu-img-83-183.el5 kmod-kvm-83-183.el5 kvm-83-183.el5 kvm-tools-83-183.el5 kvm-debuginfo-83-183.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up a rhel4 guest with virtio nic 2. Change MTU of guest nic and $tap guest)# ifconfig eth0 mtu 65520 host)# ifconfig $tap mut 65520 3. Add a arp entry on host # arp -s $guest_ip $guest_mac -i $tap 4. Ping guest from host (65520-28=65492, 65520 is max mtu of virtio nic) #ping $guest_ip -I $tap -s 65492 -M do Actual results: host can ping guest successfully Expected results: guest abnormally quit Additional info: 1. Command line: # qemu-kvm -name 'vm1' -monitor tcp:0:6001,server,nowait -drive file=/root/autotest/client/tests/kvm/images/RHEL-4.8-64-virtio.qcow2,if=virtio,cache=none,boot=on -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=02:70:04:52:e8:e2 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=virtio_0_6001,script=/root/autotest/client/tests/kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup-switch,downscript=no -m 4096 -smp 2 -soundhw ac97 -vnc :0 -spice port=8000,disable-ticketing -serial unix:/tmp/serial-20100621-161808-MXgd,server,nowait -no-hpet
I think this is the same issue as bz 610343: qemu exiting on packet truncation. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610343 Please check with kvm-83-164.el5_5.21
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 610343 ***