[SOLVED] Network is not detecting on RHEL 4.5 32bit

[Mobin]

We have a three node proxmox cluster and recently we installed a 32bit RHEL 4.5 vm but post installation RHEL 4.5 is not showing network interface.

Have anyone faced this issue.

 

[tom]

Please post your VM config - which vNIC type do you use?

> qm config VMID

 

[Mobin]

root@ascchypsrv3:~# qm config 101
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 3
ide2: nfsiso:iso/RHEL4.6-i386-AS-DVD.iso,media=cdrom,size=2273420K
memory: 8192
name: idsnasccsrv7
net0: virtio=AA:B5:6A:4B:AC:FE,bridge=vmbr1,firewall=1
net1: e1000=4A:02:0E:88:CF:1F,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: idsnasccVMStore:101/vm-101-disk-0.qcow2,size=51G
smbios1: uuid=ae22c5f1-ed3c-4d63-b261-305a92f4ac11
sockets: 2
vmgenid: afc0fd61-0e00-416a-86e6-6a38ad10f9d9

 

[Mobin]

Is RHEL 4.6 32 bit support on Proxmox ?

 

[aaron]

Does the VM see the second NIC with the MAC 4A:02:0E:88:CF:1F?

From what I could gather, RHEL 4.5 has kernel 2.6.9 [0]. Support for the virtio devices needs at least kernel 2.6.25 [1].

Either upgrade to a newer guest kernel or change the first NIC of the VM from virtio to e1000 for example.


[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL_4
[1] https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio

 

[Mobin]

Dear Aaraon,

Thanks for your response.

RHEL 4.5 32 bit is a specific requirement for us so we cannot upgrade the OS.

I change nic to e1000 and try it

 

[LnxBil]

RHEL 4.5 32 bit is a specific requirement for us so we cannot upgrade the OS.

Wow, hopefully not in the EU, otherwise you're in violation of GDPR if there are data of EU citizens stored on the system.
The system is 13 years old.

 

[Mobin]

Dear All,

Thanks for the update.

While installing I have selected 2.4 kernel and used e1000 driver. Now the interface got detected

 

[aaron]

Great! Can you please mark the thread as solved? Edit the first post and select the prefix next to the title. Thanks

 

[Mobin]

Sure