[fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offline during bulkcopies

[Vadim Rozenfeld]

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 12:11 +0300, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 07:27 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
> > I just looked at Bugzilla and may have found a problem report:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/process_bug.cgi
> 
> You probably wanted to link this:
> 'Bug 706791 - nic:Network become unavailable in windows 2008 x64 guest 
> when doing netperf test' - 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706791
> 
> There is a solution for it waiting to be signed.
> It can be released to upstream Fedora soon, Vadim and Yan can help with it.
> 

The latest (non-WHQL'ed) driver can be downloaded from the following location:
http://people.redhat.com/vrozenfe/virtio-win-prewhql-0.1.zip

Best regards,
Vadim.

> 
> Regards,
> Dor
> 
> >
> > I entered some comments at the bottom.
> >
> > -Greg
> >
> > *From:*virt-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > [mailto:virt-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Kenni Lund
> > *Sent:* Saturday, September 03, 2011 12:19 AM
> > *To:* virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > *Subject:* Re: [fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offline during
> > bulkcopies
> >
> >
> > Den 02/09/2011 09.47 skrev "Greg Scott" <GregScott at infrasupport.com
> > <mailto:GregScott at infrasupport.com>>:
> >  > So I am trying to do a bulk copy of 200+ GB from a physical Windows
> > server to this virtual machine. At random times, generally after a few
> > dozen or so GB – but sometimes after more than 100 GB – the virtual NIC
> > goes offline. From the Windows VM, I am unable to ping anything,
> > including the RHEL host it’s running under.
> >
> > While this is not really related to Fedora, I can confirm that I'm
> > seeing the same issue on a SL6.1 host at home, also running with the
> > latest vitro-win from the supplementary RHEL repository. In my case the
> > guest is a Windows 7 system. I haven't yet been able to identify a bug
> > report with this issue, so I don't know if Red Hat is aware of the issue
> > at all.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Kenni
> >
> >
> >
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