problem with virtio nic in Jaunty kvm host with Hardy guest

[James Dinkel]

oops, there is already a bug report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/331128

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> After upgrading to Jaunty Alpha 6 on my kvm server, my Ubuntu Hardy guest
> servers would freeze during boot.  After some playing around, I figured out
> I need to change the nic type from virtio to e1000 (or probably anything
> other than virtio would work).  This seems to be a bug, but my last bug
> report I discovered I was overlooking something right after submitting the
> bug report, so I thought I'd better throw this one out to the mailing list
> :D.
>
> I figured this out after trying to install a new guest and the install
> froze right before configuring the network.  If you create a guest using
> virt-install and specify '--os-type=linux --os-variant=ubuntuHardy' then it
> will create a guest with a virtio nic and will freeze during install.
>
> James
>
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