Re: PCI passthrough not working with bhyve and NetBSD

[gary%duzan.org@localhost]

"Farid Joubbi" <djfarid%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
=> I tried the install CD for the latest HEAD-201807121210Z.
=> It can see both the NICs, but they don't work.
=> Trying to configure them with DHCP, it looks as if the NIC is sending a
=> DISCOVERY but timing out never receiving anything back (I doubt that it is
=> actually sending anything on the wire).
=> Then it constantly throws this on the console: "wm0: device timeout (lost
=> interrupt)".

   That sounds like the kernel missing interrupts from the NIC, in which
case it may actually be sending out the requests but failing to see the
replies. Perhaps posting the dmesg, or at least the lines about the
NICs, could help.

                                 Gary Duzan


=> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 8:34 PM Farid Joubbi <djfarid%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
=>
=>> I have a working configuration for NetBSD on bhyve. It's not a problem
=>> with vm-bhyve https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve
=>>
=>> NetBSD 7.1.2 does not initiate the bge0 nor wm0 at all under bhyve, as I
=>> wrote earlier.
=>> It seems to run perfectly fine other than that.
=>> The "normal" vioif0 works fine.
=>>
=>> I tried NetBSD 8.0 RC2.
=>> It finds both NICs! All of a sudden I feel hope ;-)
=>> Unfortunately I can only get link-local addresses on both NICs.
=>> And I also get this printed on the console every now and then: "bge0:
=>> watchdog timeout -- resetting".
=>>
=>> I will try and get it to NetBSD-current and see.
=>>
=>>
=>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM Travis Paul <Tr%vispaul.me@localhost> wrote:
=>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> > On 9 Jul 2018, at 5:58 AM, Farid Joubbi <djfarid%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
=>>> >
=>>> > Thanks for the reply.
=>>> > After reading it, I realize that the learning curve for me to
=>>> understand what is going on is a bit too steep.
=>>> > I know only some basic C programming from university courses several
=>>> years ago.
=>>> > This kind of learning was not what I had in mind when I figured that
=>>> I
=>>> want to run a new NetBSD installation this summer... ;-(
=>>>
=>>> FWIW, NetBSD runs fine on Bhyve without PCI passthru. I'm running a few
=>>> NetBSD 7 and 8 VMs on FreeBSD 11.
=>>>
=>>> I can share some commands to get a NetBSD system up if you're
=>>> interested
=>>> but I'm not using PCI passthru so I can't assist there.
=>>>
=>>> Best,
=>>> Travis
=>>>
=>>
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