Last February I dug into where it was getting stuck. See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/13537/match=pci%5fset%5firq
and follow up posts. For the past 5-6 months I've been using the e1000 nic in rhel3 and rhel4 guests without a problem -- and without the need for guest hacks like noapic. david xming wrote: > hi, > > I am running kvm-74 and it's getting worse for me (compared to 73, or > 70,71 w/o issues), I tried virtio, rtl8139 and e1000, > the network will stall. With 8139 it happens very quick (few MB via > nfs) and I noticed that I can bring up the network > by setting the stalled NIC (in the guest) by setting it to promisc and > -promisc repeatably. > > I can now perfectly reproduced the stall and un-stall. > > When it's stalled I noticed on the host that the nic is not totally > gone, arp broadcast still gets out. > > Any ideas? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
