** Attachment added: "screenshot showing nw initialization failure" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886255/+attachment/2585413/+files/vm1_2011-11-04_00-45-19.jpg
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886255 Title: Qemu master branch - RHEL 6.1 guest failing to start network Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Guest: RHEL 6.1 64 bit DVD Kernel: Latest Fedora, also reproduces with Avi's kvm.git kernel based on 3.1: 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 qemu version: 11/04 00:25:30 DEBUG|virt_utils:2587| Git repo qemu uri: git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git 11/04 00:25:30 DEBUG|virt_utils:2590| Git repo qemu branch: master 11/04 00:25:30 DEBUG|virt_utils:3189| Configure options for git_repo_qemu: ['--target-list=x86_64-softmmu'] 11/04 00:25:30 DEBUG|virt_utils:2496| Initializing new git repo at /usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/src/qemu for receiving git repo 11/04 00:25:30 INFO |virt_utils:2505| Fetching git [REP 'git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git' BRANCH 'master'] -> /usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/src/qemu 11/04 00:25:30 DEBUG|base_utils:0074| Running 'git fetch -q -f -u -t git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git master:master' 11/04 00:34:41 INFO |virt_utils:2531| Commit hash for qemu is 932eacc158c064935c7bab920c88a93a629e1ca4 (no tag found) On guest boot screenshots (one of them attached), you can see the message "Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization" Network card info 11/04 00:44:55 DEBUG| virt_test:0041| bridge = virbr0 11/04 00:44:55 DEBUG| virt_test:0041| nic_mode = tap 11/04 00:44:55 DEBUG| virt_test:0041| nic_model = virtio Commented excerpt of the test log: 11/04 00:44:57 INFO | kvm_vm:0790| Running qemu command: /usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/qemu -name 'vm1' -nodefaults -vga std -monitor unix:'/tmp/monitor-humanmonitor1-20111104-003602-LPJY',server,nowait -qmp unix:'/tmp/monitor-qmpmonitor1-20111104-003602-LPJY',server,nowait -serial unix:'/tmp/serial-20111104-003602-LPJY',server,nowait -drive file='/tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/rhel6.1-64.qcow2',index=0,if=virtio,cache=none -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=id3HQgQx,mac='9a:16:a5:3c:05:25',id='id0AfUVE' -netdev tap,id=id3HQgQx,fd=23 -m 2048 -smp 2 -vnc :0 -enable-kvm 11/04 00:44:59 DEBUG|kvm_monito:0624| (monitor qmpmonitor1) Sending command 'qmp_capabilities' 11/04 00:44:59 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0851| VM appears to be alive with PID 9827 11/04 00:44:59 DEBUG|virt_env_p:0318| Starting screendump thread 11/04 00:44:59 DEBUG| virt_vm:0654| Attempting to log into 'vm1' (timeout 720s) ... here it starts booting ... 11/04 00:44:59 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:01 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:03 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:05 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:07 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:09 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:11 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:13 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:15 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:17 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:19 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:21 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 11/04 00:45:23 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Cannot find IP address for MAC address 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 ... here it gets an IP from the DHCP server ... 11/04 00:45:24 DEBUG|virt_env_p:0438| (address cache) Adding cache entry: 9a:16:a5:3c:05:25 ---> 192.168.122.195 ... ok, let's try to login ... 11/04 00:45:25 DEBUG|virt_utils:0710| Trying to login with command 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o PreferredAuthentications=password -p 22 root@192.168.122.195' ... ouch, not possible to login ... 11/04 00:45:25 DEBUG| virt_vm:0660| Client said 'connection refused' (output: 'ssh: connect to host 192.168.122.195 port 22: Connection refused\n') ... message above repeats until ... 11/04 00:56:59 ERROR| virt_test:0095| Test failed: LoginError: Client said 'connection refused' (output: 'ssh: connect to host 192.168.122.195 port 22: Connection refused\n') 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG|virt_env_p:0147| Postprocessing VM 'vm1' 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG|virt_env_p:0166| Param 'kill_vm' specified, killing VM 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0885| Destroying VM with PID 9827 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0889| Trying to shutdown VM with shell command 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG|virt_utils:0710| Trying to login with command 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o PreferredAuthentications=password -p 22 root@192.168.122.195' 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0893| Client said 'connection refused' (output: 'ssh: connect to host 192.168.122.195 port 22: Connection refused\n') 11/04 00:56:59 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0908| Trying to kill VM with monitor command 11/04 00:56:59 INFO | aexpect:0783| [qemu output] (Process terminated with status 0) 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG| kvm_vm:0916| VM is down 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG| virt_vm:0318| Checking image file /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/rhel6.1-64.qcow2 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0074| Running '/usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/qemu-img' 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0074| Running '/usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/qemu-img info /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/rhel6.1-64.qcow2' 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0106| [stdout] image: /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/rhel6.1-64.qcow2 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0106| [stdout] file format: qcow2 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0106| [stdout] virtual size: 10G (10737418240 bytes) 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0106| [stdout] disk size: 2.1G 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0106| [stdout] cluster_size: 65536 11/04 00:57:00 DEBUG|base_utils:0074| Running '/usr/local/autotest/tests/kvm/qemu-img check /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/rhel6.1-64.qcow2' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/886255/+subscriptions