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Created attachment 505807 [details] guest console output Description of problem: Booting IA64 RHEL4.9 HVM guest with ioemu nic rtl8139 or e1000, the guest stops responding at "Bringing up interface eth0 ...", while netfront works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): host: kernel-xen-2.6.18-267.el5 xen-3.0.3-132.el5 guest: kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-101.EL kmod-xenpv-largesmp-0.1-17.el4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add the ioemu vnif to HVM guest config. vif = ['mac=00:21:7F:B7:08:04,script=vif-bridge,bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu,model=rtl8139'] 2. boot the pre-installed RHEL 4 guest. Additional info: This issue seems introduced by the fix for bug 663537. The kmod-xenpv-0.1-11.el4 works for ioemu but not for netfront.
(In reply to comment #0) > This issue seems introduced by the fix for bug 663537. > The kmod-xenpv-0.1-11.el4 works for ioemu but not for netfront. We'll have to check other versions between -11 and -17. The patch for bug 663537 touches nothing but "xenpv/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/netfront/netfront.c". The separate kmod-xenpv package doesn't even need to be installed on the system.
Created attachment 506115 [details] dmesg from guest
Created attachment 506116 [details] /var/log/message from guest There are a lot of "ifup: interface 'dev????' not found" in the message. During waiting for the guest bringing up the eth0, `xm top` from dom0 shows that the guest CPU usage is >= 100%.