Hi,
If it's based on Xen, you probably can change the type of network card in
the configuration file to avoid the network problem.
I have try each of them (pcnet, rtl8139(by default) and ne2kpci) on Xen dom0
and launch a iperf to test performance :
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1, model=pcnet' ] -> 54.1 Mbits/sec
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1, model=rtl8139' ] -> 182 Kbits/sec (with
many timeout from the card)
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1, model=ne2k_pci' ] -> 16.5 Mbits/sec
On 9/16/07, Rolf Sommerhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Virtual Iron (VI) is a commercial virtualisation product based on Xen
> 3.1 dom0 which boots unmodified bsd.rd i386 and installs in a domU. As
> you can see from the dmesg below, it occasionally complains about
> timeouts on re0, and the virtual console gets cluttered in the later
> stages of the install. Other than that, login into sshd on the virtual
> OpenBSD box works, although I have not done exhaustive tests regarding
> stability nor performance.
>
> So far, I had no success in booting bsd.mp, however. Even after
> set image bsd.mp
> boot -c
> disable apm
> enable acpi
> exit
> bsd.mp stops after printing "nvram: invalid checksum".
>
> When leaving the defaults (e.g. apm enabled and acpi disabled), bsd.mp
> stops just after printing this, followed by
> "apm0: APM system defaults failed: unknown error code? (83)"
> "apm0: disconnected"
>
> If someone is interested in having a closer look, then I will try to
> make transcripts from the virtual console (or screenshots).
>
> VI 4.0 was released last week. Even if it officially supports only a
> handful of selected guest OS as of now, and there no VI Tools
> available for OpenBSD (yet - source is available), I gave it a try on
> virtualized Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers with iSCSI IP SAN arrays from
> EqualLogic in a pre-prod lab. VI is an interesting alternative to ESX
> from VMware, and it also competes with XenSource.
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
>
> # dmesg
> OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #405: Thu Sep 13 16:06:09 MDT 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8220 ("AuthenticAMD"
> 686-class, 1024KB L2 cache) 2.81 GHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16
> real mem = 536416256 (511MB)
> avail mem = 510992384 (487MB)
> mainbus0 at root
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/23/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
> 0xfa3b0, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe901f (11 entries)
> bios0: vendor Xen version "3.1-070908"
> bios0: Xen HVM domU
> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
> apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x0
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfa650/128 (6 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:01:0 ("Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
> cpu0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82441FX" rev 0x02
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA,
> channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QEMU HARDDISK>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 9536MB, 19529728 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 2
> atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
> scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QEMU, QEMU CD-ROM, 0.8.> SCSI0 5/cdrom
> removable
> cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 0, DMA mode 2
> piixpm0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x01: SMBus
> disabled
> vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446" rev 0x00
> wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> unknown vendor 0x5853 product 0x0001 (class undefined unknown subclass
> 0x80, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configured
> re0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x20: RTL8139C+
> (0x7480), irq 5, address 00:0f:4b:16:fd:0f
> rlphy0 at re0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
> isa0 at pcib0
> isadma0 at isa0
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
> wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> spkr0 at pcppi0
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: density unknown
> fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown
> biomask efdd netmask effd ttymask ffff
> pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
> mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
> nvram: invalid checksum
> dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
> root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
> clock: unknown CMOS layout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> #
>
>
--
Julien Cabillot
