On 13-03-04 03:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 01:22 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
On 13-03-03 04:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
If Vbox did try to install the crossbow driver, he should have
noticed it fail to load as there are three kernel calls that that
driver expects to find but will be unable to find.
In any case, the vbox streams driver is problematic and cuts off the
network from time to time. That's why I tried to force the
installation of the crossbow driver only to find out that they are
depending on three new vnic_{create|delete|modify} calls that
illumos does not have.
I have a few all-in-one OI+VBox servers running and I am not seeing
network issues. One is running oi_151a3+Vbox 4.1.22.
What makes you believe there are problems with the streams driver?
The fact that you ping a host from any other host without problems but
the guest for some reason at that moment just cannot. Then later on,
it is able while all others have been able for the entire time. I have
two Windows guests with bridged adapters. If did seem that this only
started when the second guest was added.
Did you create a vnic for each guest, and assign the same mac address on
the vbox Ethernet adapter that is on the vnic?
I did get some weirdness with the virtio driver and linux guests. I
have standardized on the 82545EM card for linux guests.
Is the weirdness the same as the above? Because, that is what I use,
the virtio driver for the guests.
No, it wasn't intermittent on/off. From what I remember I would need
to do a restart of the VM to recover. Though that may have been fixed
now, but I just go with what works.
another note, one of the VMs is a PBX running Asterisk, which would be
very sensitive to networking issues.
It would be really nice to be able to use the crossbow driver.
Managing the process of creating a vnic and then having to match the
mac address is kind of a pain.
It is just three new kernel functions in a vnic_mgmt.h header IIRC. I
have been trying to find out how dladm creates vnics to find out what
the internal calls are but I have not hit anything with a cursory
search and I have not had time to do a more thorough search.
If you find the time,that would be awesome!!
Geoff
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