Hi, a 'quick fun' question: I've got a Win7 VM running on current ProxmoxVE (2.6.35 kernel) with VirtIO Hard drive and NIC configured.
It seems, after ~12-24 hours of uptime, the NIC spontaneously seizes up. VNC console on the system, cmd line, "ipconfig", tells me "Media Unoperational". If I try to disable and then enable the NIC, either via GUI or cmd-line "netsh" command (ie, netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" DISABLED) - it simply hangs on the command - and does not disable.
If I reboot the VM, it comes up perfectly fine and the NIC is operational - until it seizes up the next time. (however: to shut the VM down - I just had to give it a hard "stop" because the shutdown process was .. not proceeding after ~10 minutes of telling me, "shutting down.." ).
I'm using the latest VirtIO driver linked from the ProxVE wiki/ as per the fedora binary ISO download, URL: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ - current version is 1.1.16 dated 15-jun-2011 I believe)
I'm going to flip the machine over to e1000 intel NIC for now and see if things run better. Certainly have a stable connection is critical... even if some performance loss from Virtio ->e1000 gig nic. I was just curious if other folks have experience with this. I've heard in forums that earlier VirtIO drives had issues with freezing up, but had the impression this issue had been addressed in this current/latest driver.. so was curious if there was any feedback.
Many thanks!
Tim
It seems, after ~12-24 hours of uptime, the NIC spontaneously seizes up. VNC console on the system, cmd line, "ipconfig", tells me "Media Unoperational". If I try to disable and then enable the NIC, either via GUI or cmd-line "netsh" command (ie, netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" DISABLED) - it simply hangs on the command - and does not disable.
If I reboot the VM, it comes up perfectly fine and the NIC is operational - until it seizes up the next time. (however: to shut the VM down - I just had to give it a hard "stop" because the shutdown process was .. not proceeding after ~10 minutes of telling me, "shutting down.." ).
I'm using the latest VirtIO driver linked from the ProxVE wiki/ as per the fedora binary ISO download, URL: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ - current version is 1.1.16 dated 15-jun-2011 I believe)
I'm going to flip the machine over to e1000 intel NIC for now and see if things run better. Certainly have a stable connection is critical... even if some performance loss from Virtio ->e1000 gig nic. I was just curious if other folks have experience with this. I've heard in forums that earlier VirtIO drives had issues with freezing up, but had the impression this issue had been addressed in this current/latest driver.. so was curious if there was any feedback.
Many thanks!
Tim
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