Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Re: Trouble networking virtualization

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 10:15:53AM +0100, Frans Schneider wrote:
> Yes, installed a fresh 7.8 and did all updates (syspatch, pkg_add -u,
> fw_update). No luck yet. No traffic from the guest on tap0.
>

that's effectively still 7.8-stable (plus patches).

you'd need to run sysupgrade -s to get latest daily snapshot.

-ml

>
> Op 11-03-2026 om 12:57 a.m. schreef David Gwynne:
> > Is the hypervisor a stable openbsd 7.8 box? There's a "feature mismatch"
> > in the virtio net code that recent Linux kernels trip over that's fixed
> > in current. If you upgrade the host to a snapshot it should work.
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, 20:51 Markus Hennecke,
> > <markus-hennecke@markus-hennecke.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am 3/10/2026 um 10:12 AM schrieb Frans Schneider:
> > > I feel rather stupid, but it turns out to be a misconfigurated
> > switch
> > > sitting between the dhcp server and the network the laptop. I
> > was looking
> > > for traffic on the dhcpd's subnetwork with wireshark and saw
> > nothing. It
> > > now
> > > works as expected.
> > >
> > > BTW: with Alpine Linux 3.23.3 as guest I can't get networking
> > working.
> > > OpenBSD works fine.
> >
> > Since I upgraded a Arch Linux VM to the latest release with kernel
> > 6.18
> > I see the same thing. I can see ethernet packets with ARP requests on
> > the tap interface, but the source MAC is set to all zeros. The VM
> > can't
> > talk. Alpine 3.23 was also released with a 6.18 kernel.
> >
> > Regards
> > Markus
> >

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