Re: vmm networking with ubuntu guest [SOLVED-ish]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:44:06AM -0800, Carlos Cardenas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:38:41PM +1100, tomr wrote:
> >
> > So. This email was written before I had tried an earlier LTS version of
> > ubuntu as the VMM guest. May the details below help someone else in future!
> >
> > Whatever the problem was, my workaround was to use 16.04-LTS instead 17.10
> >
> > t
> >
> > --
> >
> > I'm trying to get an ubuntu guest running, but something is going wrong
> > with its networking. Using the exact same vmd config (apart from disk
> > images and lladdr), I can get both OpenBSD and alpine linux guests
> > running just fine.
>
> Howdy.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> The issue at hand is that newer versions of ubuntu have an "updated" vionet
> guest driver which is causing issues to the vionet driver in vmd.
>
>
> +--+
> Carlos
>

Yes, I debugged this a few weeks back. It seems that the guest driver in
17.10 is not happy with being told it only has 1 entry in its ring. I got
sidetracked with other things, but should be a simple fix if I get some time.

-ml