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

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 09:21 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> On 13-03-04 03:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 01:22 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> The fact that you ping a host from any other host without problems 
>> but the guest for some reason at that moment just cannot. Then later 
>> on, it is able while all others have been able for the entire time. I 
>> have two Windows guests with bridged adapters. If did seem that this 
>> only started when the second guest was added.
>
> Did you create a vnic for each guest, and assign the same mac address 
> on the vbox Ethernet adapter that is on the vnic?
Oh yes.
oliverbrad0  inetaggr0    1000   8:0:27:e2:8f:6a fixed               11
r2brad0      bradaggr0    1000   8:0:27:92:e8:15 fixed               11

<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027E28F6A" cable="true" 
speed="0" type="virtio">
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002792E815" cable="true" 
speed="0" type="virtio">

>
>>
>>>
>>> I did get some weirdness with the virtio driver and linux guests. I 
>>> have standardized on the 82545EM card for linux guests.
>>
>> Is the weirdness the same as the above? Because, that is what I use, 
>> the virtio driver for the guests.
>
> No, it wasn't intermittent on/off.   From what I remember I would need 
> to do a restart of the VM to recover.  Though that may have been fixed 
> now, but I just go with what works.
>
> another note, one of the VMs is a PBX running Asterisk, which would be 
> very sensitive to networking issues.

Well, my guests are all windows...and I am feeling it because one of 
them is the AD controller.

The streams driver performs well enough for you for Asterisk and other 
stuff?
>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> It is just three new kernel functions in a vnic_mgmt.h header IIRC. I 
>> have been trying to find out how dladm creates vnics to find out what 
>> the internal calls are but I have not hit anything with a cursory 
>> search and I have not had time to do a more thorough search.
>>
> If you find the time,that would be awesome!!
>

Yeah, time to get a build box.