[fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offlineduringbulkcopies

[Dor Laor]

On 09/22/2011 09:07 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
> I can also tentatively report better results. I put in a gb switch at
> the colo site connecting the servers I had here at my place before.  So
> now I have the exact same hardware that gave me trouble before.  I just
> finished a 100GB backup from a Win2003 physical server to a Win2008R2 VM
> using that new preWHQL driver in the 2008R2 VM and it ran to completion
> in 5 hours and 8 minutes.  I am starting up one more test that will
> backup around 175 GB.  I will report results here when it finishes a few
> hours from now.

Thanks for the update. Hope you'll one day manage to restore all the 
data from the backup :)

>
> - Greg Scott
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volker Dormeyer [mailto:volker at ixolution.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 6:01 AM
> To: Dor Laor
> Cc: Greg Scott; Tom Horsley; virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes
> offlineduringbulkcopies
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:48:47PM +0300, Dor Laor<dlaor at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>> On 09/06/2011 07:40 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
>>> So that Realtech problem could have been something else, but looking
>
>>> back, I don't think so. I wonder if the VirtIO and hardware emulator
>
>>> drivers share some common code?  Or maybe there's a flow control
>>> issue effecting them both?
>>
>> Is the virtio issue happens with Vadim's latest drivers?
>
> We experienced a similar problem, while copying a bulk of data to
> several VMs (Windows 2008 / 64 Bit). I was able to recreate this
> problem, anytime.
>
> So far, I'm unable to recreate the problem with the preWHQL drivers
> provided by Vadim. It looks good from my point ot view, now!
>
> Best Regards,
> Volker