From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 10:05:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304FB87B; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:05:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9247C8FC15; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9UA5d3h084411 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:05:40 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <508FA673.5040004@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:05:39 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "sbruno@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: dev/virtio stuff References: <1351547382.3063.21.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <508F1820.3050404@unsane.co.uk> <1351555241.3315.0.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <1351557517.3315.3.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1351557517.3315.3.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sean Bruno , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:05:49 -0000 On 30/10/2012 00:38, Sean Bruno wrote: > Some google foo landed me on an IBM site that hinted at me that the > virsh commands of RHEL 5 don't know how to setup virtio on the > network. However, you can add it to the RHEL 5 config manually. > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic= > %2Fliaat%2Fliaatkvmfaq.htm Sean I set that up some time ago and converted it to the virtio drivers after it was installed so I'll admit I'm unsure how good the RHEL5 setup is by default. The only FreeBSD VM I have on RHEL/CentOS 6 is a 9.1-RC2 VM for poudriere builds and doesnt have the virtio drivers sadly, might play with a 9-stable install to see how it goes when I get time. Vince