[fedora-virt] Slow virtio network startup?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:39:09AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I just replaced my block and network virtio drivers in my
> Windows XP machine with the newest ones (the old block
> driver would bluescreen at boot time). The new drivers
> seem to work, but the network takes almost a minute to
> get initialized. During this time if I try to do things
> like right click on network and bring up properties,
> nothing happens at all, the window with the list of
> interfaces doesn't even appear for about a minute, and
> when it does appear, it is blank - I have to right click
> and refresh before the network shows up. Once this finally
> happens, it seems to be working normally. I can tell
> it to repair, and it only takes a few seconds to renew
> the DHCP lease, so I don't think this is a DHCP problem.
> 
> When I was using the older virtio drivers on the older
> libvirt, the network would come up right away without
> this mysterious delay, and other than updating the
> virtio drivers I haven't changed any settings.
> 
> Anyone have any clues to the problem, or ideas for
> how I can tell what is going on?

There's not much to go on here.  Do the drivers log anything?
eg in the Event Viewer?

Rich.

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