On 2008-10-13, Daniel Bareiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Brad. > >>> There are issues with re(4) which are being worked on, use a snapshot >>> instead. > >> There are not "issues with re(4) which are being worked on" which >> pertain to this issue. The problem mentioned by the original poster is >> an issue with the (emulated) RTL8139 driver provided by QEMU which KVM >> is derived from. The driver does not fully emulate the hw by default >> unless compiled with a particular define, in this case it is the timer >> interrupt. This needs to be fixed upstream with QEMU and then also bug >> the KVM developers to copy the change over to their source tree. > > I was looking for the bug report in Qemu but I could not find it. You > have some link to be able to have a reference and track its state?
No, but there's a nice post about it here. http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1343896&tstart=0 OpenBSD and FreeBSD both have this defined in their respective ports trees. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/emulators/qemu/patches/patch-hw_rtl8139_c?rev=1.4 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/qemu/files/rtl8139-re-patch?rev=1.1 > It's peculiar that testing both Linux distributions and Windows XP, I > did not have this problem using the same network card. Not really. Not all drivers for the same hardware work the same way.
