On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:11:19 +0200 Roland <[email protected]> wrote: I run a Debian Lenny VM:
# cat /etc/issue.net Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 # modinfo virtio_net filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/virtio_net.ko license: GPL description: Virtio network driver alias: virtio:d00000001v* depends: vermagic: 2.6.26-2-686 SMP mod_unload modversions 686 parm: napi_weight:int parm: csum:bool parm: gso:bool Proxmox host version 5.4: # cat /proc/version Linux version 4.15.18-30-pve (root@nora) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1)) #1 SMP PVE 4.15.18-58 (Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:53:01 +0200) I upgraded from 4.15.18-27-pve to 4.15.18-30-pve and then the virtio driver became very unstable. This machine has run for many years on multiple versions of Proxmox (IIRC from version 1) without any problem. R. > i see that my centos 5.11 VM should have support for virtio (see > below) and according to https://access.redhat.com/articles/2488201 > rhel/centos supports this since 5.3. > > so if virtio worked before a proxmox update, then i would call this a > regression. > > can you tell which proxmox version worked for you with virtio ? > > i tested centos 5.11 installer on my older pve 6.0-4 (5.0.15-1-pve > kernel) , but it does not find virtual disks. > > roland > > [root@hr-neu ~]# uname -aLinux hr-neu 2.6.18-398.el5 #1 SMP Tue Sep 16 > 20:50:52 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > [root@centos5 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 5.11 (Final) > [root@centos5 ~]# rpm -q kernel --changelog|grep virtio|grep 446214 > - [xen] virtio: include headers in kernel-headers package (Eduardo > Pereira Habkost ) [446214] > - [xen] virtio: add PV network and block drivers for KVM (Mark > McLoughlin ) [446214] > - [xen] virtio: include headers in kernel-headers package (Eduardo > Pereira Habkost ) [446214] > - [xen] virtio: add PV network and block drivers for KVM (Mark > McLoughlin ) [446214] > > Am 23.07.20 um 10:22 schrieb richard lucassen: > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:06:27 +0200 > > Michael Rasmussen via pve-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:41:54 +0200 > >> richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> network. There is definitly something wrong somewhere. > >>> > >> The only thing wrong here is that you a running a version of > >> RHEL/CentOS which is in maintenance support 2. This means there > >> will be no more updates except critical bugs. As of March 31, 2017 > >> it is considered in deep freeze! > > I know. But sometimes you need to keep an old version and a good > > way to handle this is to run such an old version in a virtual > > environment. A vhost supplies virtual hardware and apparently this > > virtual hardware has changed. This is not A Good Thing IMHO. > > > > It runs well under subversion 27 of the pve kernel but has stopped > > under version 30. So I think this is a bug as I do not expect design > > changes between subversion 27 and 30. > > > > R. > > -- richard lucassen https://contact.xaq.nl/ _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
