I have now had this problem again, but I'm unsure how to produce it or provide diagnostic information - is there any way to file a bug officially with a core by non-paying customers?
This is all 'professional' equipment (Dell 410s) which has been largely upgraded since the last time I had the problem, with a managed Procurve gigE switch (last time it was an unmanaged netgear gigE).
The configuration is similar to before, but on the current proxmox 4.1 (not 3.x as previously): bridged networking. Doesn't seem to make a
The first time I had the issue (on 3.x), rebooting didn't seem to make a difference (IIRC - it was 5+ months ago). That was when I upgraded to 4.1, thinking perhaps that would help (and if not, I was going to have to use something else).
Logs when the VM starts up look about as you'd expect (I think):
[ 1318.537900] device tap104i1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1318.542051] vmbr0: port 6(tap104i1) entered forwarding state
[ 1318.542062] vmbr0: port 6(tap104i1) entered forwarding state
[ 1321.743710] kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
[ 1321.748838] kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
[ 1624.763622] device tap108i0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1624.767934] vmbr0: port 7(tap108i0) entered forwarding state
[ 1624.767945] vmbr0: port 7(tap108i0) entered forwarding state
This only appears to be with new VMs... I can start and run older provisioned VMs, but if I try to create a new VM I have this problem. This time, it's with OpenSuSE installer (both Tumbleweed and Leap 43.1). I can't get a dhcp lease, or talk to the network in any way (manual config in VM, etc.).
I haven't tried rebooting this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to start any of the VMs...