On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Flypen CloudMe <fly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> My Linux kernel is 2.6.32, and my machine has an Intel e1000 1Gbps
> NIC. The Guest OS is Windows XP. I use PCI passthrough to pass the
> e1000 NIC to the VM, so Windows XP can directly use this physical NIC
> and should has higher performance.
>
> I successfully install Intel PRO/1000 PT driver in XP. Then the NIC
> can work, and the performance is not bad (about 700Mbps). However, if
> I reboot XP, the strange thing happens. Just after reboot, the NIC can
> be used. But if I run some other programs with some IO traffic, no
> data can be transferred via this NIC from then on. There are no
> abnormal information in Windows event logs, and there are no warnings
> or errors for Intel PRO/1000 PT driver in Windows device manager. I
> can't ping the VM from any machines. Why doesn't Intel e1000 NIC work
> correctly after reboot?
>
> Another strange thing. If I re-install PRO/1000 PT driver, the NIC can
> be used again. No matter what applications I run in Guest OS, the NIC
> can work well as long as I don't reboot it. But after I reboot the
> Guest OS, I must re-install the NIC driver each time, otherwise the
> NIC can't work.
>
> Who knows the reason of this strange behavior for e1000 NIC in KVM
> Windows environment? Is it driver related? I also use Linux as the
> Guest OS, everything is well even I reboot the VM many times.

What version of kvm are you using?  Thanks,

Alex
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