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diff --git a/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/network/1384892 b/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/network/1384892 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5368832d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/network/1384892 @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ + +RTL8168 NIC VFIO not working anymore since QEMU 2.1 + +After upgrading QEMU from 2.0 to 2.1 (and libiscsi from 1.7.0 to 1.12 as a dependency) my two RTL8168 NICs stopped working. +The NICs do not respond to any command and even the LEDs on the network connection turn off, a few seconds after the VM started. +To get them back running I had to downgrade to 2.0 and restart the system. +Unfortunately, I have no clue what to do or how to debug this problem since there are no specific errors logged. +I tried two different VMs: Debian Wheezy and IPFire (see attachment for further details). +The QEMU 2.1 changelog states "Support for RTL8168 NICs." so there were some major changes done, I guess. + +On the IPFire guest the kernel log shows many of these lines: +r8169 0000:00:07.0 green1: rtl_eriar_cond == 1 (loop: 100, delay: 100) +r8169 0000:00:07.0 green1: rtl_phy_reset_cond == 1 (loop: 100, delay: 1) + +On the Debian guest there is only: +r8169 0000:00:07.0: firmware: agent loaded rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw into memory +r8169 0000:00:07.0: lan0: link down +ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): lan0: link is not ready + +The commandline for IPFire can be seen in the attachment. It is the same for Debian. +There are also the complete kernel logs for the working (2.0) and non-working (2.1) cases. \ No newline at end of file |