Re: xen network problem

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:01:31PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:33:09PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > No packets received and watchdog timeout, this is a good hint at an
> > interrupt problem. vmstat -i will probably confirm that it gets no
> > interrupts.
> 
> I don't know how to interpret this info, so here's the output of vmstat -i
> when running in Xen as domain0: 

You also need to know which interrupt the devices are using:
dmesg |fgrep "irq " will tell you

> > My guess is that the ACPI in Xen is getting it wrong for your machine.
> > You can try adding 'noacpi' on the Xen boot command line in grub.  If
> > that doesn't help, try 'ignorebiostables' (but this disables SMP, if you
> > care).
> 
> I tried both, it didn't seem to make a difference.  

Just to be sure
You did put it on the xen.gz command line, not the netbsd command line,
right ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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