I have a pain-staking problem with network on Win2k3 guest on IA64 host with Red Hat 5.3 - by default it uses Realtek 8139 which is not supported on Win2k3 in any way, and changing the model (model=whatever in vif=...) doesn''t change anything - it always ends with *!@#! Realtek ... now, I am very tired of trying out different things (compiling Xen from src.rpm, from xensource xen-unstable.hg, trying vfirmware from xensource, different parameters in guest specification, I don''t know ..) - nothing helps. Thing is that I am trying to make the proof of concept in my company for RHEL5.3 as platform for Itanium virtualization (BL380c) in order to get full support contract with Red Hat as a breakthrough ... but it seems that Microsoft always has to win, I vae tried to ring every bell available, but nothing came and now I am tired and worn out completely ... If anyone has any idea, hint, something, please tell me. shoom013@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Xen-HVM-Wink2k3-guest-network-problem-tp23475221p23475221.html Sent from the Fedora Xen mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Pasi Kärkkäinen
2009-May-11 07:29 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen HVM Wink2k3 guest network problem
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 04:43:55PM -0700, shoom wrote:> > I have a pain-staking problem with network on Win2k3 guest on IA64 host with > Red Hat 5.3 - by default it uses Realtek 8139 which is not supported on > Win2k3 in any way, and changing the model (model=whatever in vif=...) > doesn''t change anything - it always ends with *!@#! Realtek ... now, I am > very tired of trying out different things (compiling Xen from src.rpm, from > xensource xen-unstable.hg, trying vfirmware from xensource, different > parameters in guest specification, I don''t know ..) - nothing helps. Thing > is that I am trying to make the proof of concept in my company for RHEL5.3 > as platform for Itanium virtualization (BL380c) in order to get full support > contract with Red Hat as a breakthrough ... but it seems that Microsoft > always has to win, I vae tried to ring every bell available, but nothing > came and now I am tired and worn out completely ... If anyone has any idea, > hint, something, please tell me.Did you try installing paravirtualized windows drivers provided by Redhat? And also, you might have better luck on rhelv5-list instead of fedora-xen.. -- Pasi
> Did you try installing paravirtualized windows drivers provided by Redhat?These are just for x86 an x64, unapplicable for ia64 ...> And also, you might have better luck on rhelv5-list instead of > fedora-xen..Ok, I will try there, too ... 10x for the reply, ZP. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Xen-HVM-Wink2k3-guest-network-problem-tp23475221p23482415.html Sent from the Fedora Xen mailing list archive at Nabble.com.