[SOLVED] Add Custom Virtual NIC Device in VM Container

DonMcCoy

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Hello, I have a specified system image for telephone system, I could run everything without problem, but unfortunately i got "NIC Unavailable" Error at the host application, and upon searching, I discovered that this telephony application only have few driver support for network nic card, they are:

AMD NIC: Am79C970A PCnet-PCI II Single-Chip Full-Duplex Ethernet Controller
  • a.k.a PCNet32
  • a.k.a Vlance

And with Proxmox I have only the following model:

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How could i add my own Virtual Nic, e.g. Vlance?

Any Idea is highly appreciated, Thanks
 
This is possible by editing the config from the command line (pc net is very old, I see it is recommended for the virtualization of Windows 3.1 ... )


For this:
find out the config file of your VM like /etc/pve/qemu-server/505.conf
remove the existing net0 device if any
add the following lines:
args: -net nic,model=pcnet
balloon: 0

now boot the VM you will a PCnet32 device inside:
root@stretch:~# lspci -k | sed -n '/Ethernet/,/Kernel modules/p'
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
Kernel driver in use: pcnet32
Kernel modules: pcnet32
 
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Thanks for your reply and time.

However, I already did this, I edited my_vm.conf,
Added the line:
net0: Vlance=00:0C:29:10:28:A4,bridge=vmbr2
Instead of:
net0: vmxnet3=00:0C:29:10:28:A4,bridge=vmbr2

But then when i go to proxmox gui, I see that the whole network interface disappears, as i think i added an unavailable NIC in the conf.


And Now I tried with args as you said, This is my conf file:

Code:
boot: c
bootdisk: ide0
cores: 1
hotplug: disk,network
ide0: volume-fra1-01:101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,size=563M
ide1: volume-fra1-01:101/vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,size=1G
ide2: volume-fra1-01:101/vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,size=102M
ide3: volume-fra1-01:101/vm-101-disk-4.qcow2,size=307M
kvm: 0
memory: 200
name: IPVA
args: -net nic,model=pcnet
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: other
smbios1: uuid=564df90a-32fe-3ddd-54e0-0a16da1028a4,manufacturer=564df90a-32fe-3ddd-54e0-0a16da1028a4
sockets: 1
tablet: 0


Now i fail to boot/start with the following error:

Code:
kvm: -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: PCI: slot 3 function 0 not available for virtio-balloon-pci, in use by pcnet

And second line:
Code:
TASK ERROR: start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -id 101 -chardev 'socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/101.qmp,server,nowait' -mon 'chardev=qmp,mode=control' -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/101.pid -daemonize -smbios 'type=1,uuid=564df90a-32fe-3ddd-54e0-0a16da1028a4,manufacturer=564df90a-32fe-3ddd-54e0-0a16da1028a4' -name IPVA -smp '1,sockets=1,cores=1,maxcpus=1' -nodefaults -boot 'menu=on,strict=on,reboot-timeout=1000,splash=/usr/share/qemu-server/bootsplash.jpg' -vga cirrus -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/101.vnc,x509,password -cpu qemu64 -m 200 -k en-us -net 'nic,model=pcnet' -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.1,chassis_nr=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1e' -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.2,chassis_nr=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1f' -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,id=uhci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2' -device 'virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3' -iscsi 'initiator-name=iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:60f978fdcfc' -drive 'file=/mnt/volume-fra1-01/images/101/vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0,id=ide0,bootindex=100' -drive 'file=/mnt/volume-fra1-01/images/101/vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide1,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide1,id=ide1' -drive 'file=/mnt/volume-fra1-01/images/101/vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide2,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-hd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide2,id=ide2' -drive 'file=/mnt/volume-fra1-01/images/101/vm-101-disk-4.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide3,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-hd,bus=ide.1,unit=1,drive=drive-ide3,id=ide3' -machine 'accel=tcg'' failed: exit code 1
 
this is why you also need
balloon: 0
in your vm.conf as I wrote
 
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sorry i missed the balloon:0, now my application worked flawlessly and i got an ip too. :)

I'm deeply thankful to you,

I didn't need to load the driver into the kernel it works without, weird.
 
Hi, manu, execuse me to reopen the solved thread,
I seem not be able to get a connection to outside the host, to have functional network i have to bridge it to: vmbr2, like that:
on usual kvm i would use:
Code:
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr2

and all will be fine, but how should i set the bridge with our args case here:
Code:
args: -net nic,model=pcnet
 
Hello Manu, could you help me out, too?

args: -net nic,model=pcnet
balloon: 0
boot:
cores: 2
ide0: local:704/vm-704-disk-0.qcow2,size=563M
ide1: local:704/vm-704-disk-1.qcow2,size=1G
ide2: local:704/vm-704-disk-2.qcow2,size=102M
ide3: local:704/vm-704-disk-3.qcow2,size=307M
memory: 2048
name: inno-pbx
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=acca2ee8-f560-4cfc-9f32-9e15bd12e229
sockets: 2
vga: std
vmgenid: b2031d1d-5a20-43b4-94ff-d56d93cf1404

->

kvm: -device VGA,id=vga,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2: PCI: slot 2 function 0 not available for VGA, in use by pcnet
start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
 
Hello,

i have the same issue like lexid.
Is the pcnet device still supported by the 7.1-12 Version?


kvm: -device VGA,id=vga,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2: PCI: slot 2 function 0 not available for VGA, in use by pcnet
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
 
Hello,

i have the same issue like lexid.
Is the pcnet device still supported by the 7.1-12 Version?


kvm: -device VGA,id=vga,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2: PCI: slot 2 function 0 not available for VGA, in use by pcnet
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1
Have a look at this forum post here

You have to change the args line such that you specify a particular pci bus address that is not already in use, e.g.
Code:
args: -net nic,model=pcnet,addr=0x16

I still struggle with getting the disk to boot in the first place., however. It is stuck on
Booting from Hard disk ...
 

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