Subject: Re: XEN3_DOM0 diskless can't seem to receive packets
To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 07/19/2006 19:56:48
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:29:18AM -0400, Craig Metz wrote:
>   I am built a NetBSD -HEAD image as of yesterday, using the XEN3_DOM0 config
> (except that I've changed the NFS boot option flags to be DHCP, not static).
> When I try to boot that image diskless, I get timeouts in the kernel DHCP
> client. I can see with a sniffer that the packets are getting to the box, and
> I can boot a straight (non-Xen) NetBSD kernel diskless in the same setup, so
> the problem appears to be that the NICs are not actually receiving the packets
> properly (an interrupt problem?). I have this problem with both a fxp and a
> wm - have not yet tried other NICs.

>   Could anyone suggest a fix or how to debug this further?

You can try to add 'noapic acpi=off nosmp' to Xen's kernel command line
in grub.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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