[OpenIndiana-discuss] [SPAM?] Re: using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-03-03 04:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> If Vbox did try to install the crossbow driver, he should have noticed 
> it fail to load as there are three kernel calls that that driver 
> expects to find but will be unable to find.
>
> In any case, the vbox streams driver is problematic and cuts off the 
> network from time to time. That's why I tried to force the 
> installation of the crossbow driver only to find out that they are 
> depending on three new vnic_{create|delete|modify} calls that illumos 
> does not have.

I have a few all-in-one OI+VBox servers running and I am not seeing 
network issues.  One is running oi_151a3+Vbox 4.1.22.

What makes you believe there are problems with the streams driver?

I did get some weirdness with the virtio driver and linux guests.  I 
have standardized on the 82545EM card for linux guests.

It would be really nice to be able to use the crossbow driver. Managing 
the process of creating a vnic and then having to match the mac address 
is kind of a pain.

Geoff