Bug 833687
| Summary: | manpage says e1000 is the default nic (default is rtl8139) | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | xiali |
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Karen Noel <knoel> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | acathrow, areis, bsarathy, dyasny, juzhang, knoel, kzhang, mazhang, mkenneth, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | alpha | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.321.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-02-21 07:37:30 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| 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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Description
xiali
2012-06-20 07:09:56 UTC
Avi: you reverted the default to rtl8139 in RHEL (not upstream):
commit 6025b2d198f9f6ad0304272df6d78659b86c880a
Author: Avi Kivity <avi>
Date: Mon Aug 31 14:14:40 2009 +0300
Revert back to rtl8139 as default nic
e1000 is not supported well on Windows XP.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi>
Adam (comment #0) says this doesn't work, so should we re-revert back to e1000 or should we fix the manpage?
The change is not in RHEL, but in qemu-kvm.git. rtl8139 works fine in Linux. (In reply to comment #3) > The change is not in RHEL, but in qemu-kvm.git. > > rtl8139 works fine in Linux. No, rt8139 doesn't work fine in all linux. Compiling kernel with defconfig, the bzImage generated supports e1000 but not rt8139. And I don't think we should apply that non-upstream patch, WinXP users can set nic model by themself. If you still insist, please keep the manpage and behavior same at least. Thank you. defconfig is irrelevant, no one uses it for anything. Nor am I about to break Windows XP out-of-the-box experience. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I mean, if you still insist rt8139, please change the manpage too. QEMU can be a tool for OS developing, keeping the manpage and behavior same is important in that way. (In reply to comment #6) > Maybe I didn't make myself clear. > > I mean, if you still insist rt8139, please change the manpage too. Adam, that's why I changed the bug description and kept it open: the manpage should be fixed. This request was not resolved in time for the current release. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development. This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. Reproduced this bug on: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a virt system, keep the nic option default
2. start it
3. lspci or ethtool
Actual results:
1.virt-manager generate command line by nic option default:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.3.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name asdf -uuid e14efda3-eebe-d63c-0a9d-a2009ff0dc95 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/asdf.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/asdf.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/home/iso/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:e2:c0:9d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
2.lspci in guest found nic is 8139
3.man page:
Create a new Network Interface Card and connect it to VLAN n (n = 0
is the default). The NIC is an e1000 by default on the PC target.
Verified this bug on: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.334.el6.x86_64
Actual results:
1.virt-manager generate command line by nic option default:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name asdf -S -M rhel5.4.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid f62b63c0-722e-f7f6-05df-2041d6b64582 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/asdf.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/asdf.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=2 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:7f:65:a2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,bootindex=1 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
2.lspci in guest found nic is 8139
3. man page:
...
Create a new Network Interface Card and connect it to VLAN n (n = 0
is the default). The NIC is an rtl8139 by default on the PC target.
so this bug was fixed.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0527.html |