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Bug 633699

Summary: Cannot hot-plug nic in windows VM when the vmem is larger
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Golita Yue <gyue>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.1CC: aarcange, lihuang, llim, mhusnain, michen, mkenneth, ndai, plyons, snagar, tburke, virt-maint
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.114.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, when a network interface controller (NIC) was plugged into or unplugged in a running virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of virtual memory, a "Device '[device_name]' could not be initialized" error displayed. This is now fixed and plugging or unplugging an NIC in a running virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory works as expected.
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
: 1004197 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 11:30:26 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 580954, 653343, 1004197    

Comment 14 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-15 15:09:34 UTC
Posted fix in rhvirt-patches with Message-ID: <20100915150855.GF5981>

Comment 15 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-15 16:04:36 UTC
Here a build including the fix: https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=2764810

Comment 23 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-01-10 15:40:16 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
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.

Comment 24 Misha H. Ali 2011-05-12 01:52:58 UTC
    Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-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:
+Previously, when a network interface controller (NIC) was plugged into or unplugged in a running virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of virtual memory, a "Device '[device_name]' could not be initialized" error displayed. This is now fixed and plugging or unplugging an NIC in a running virtual machine with 4 or more gigabytes of the virtual memory works as expected.-
-  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.

Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 11:30:26 UTC
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-2011-0534.html

Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 12:48:36 UTC
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-2011-0534.html