[illumos-Discuss] recent sunos kernels has big problem with qemu's e1000 driver

[Andrew Gabriel]

dpecka wrote:
> well, in short (i discussed this with qemu/kvm guys):
> 
> 1) sunos guys say that problem is in driver emulation .. ok, right
> 2) qemu guys say **YOU FIX (cuz you have strange implementation)
> 
> there is no way out from this .. so i'd like to fix .. it has only one
> problem .. i am unable to dig out from mdb or whatever i should use
> what's happening bad in sunos kernel with loaded e1000 driver ..

Do you really want to fix the problem, or do you just want a working system?

If it's the latter, why not emulate a different ethernet device in qemu? 
I've never used qemu myself, but at a quick glance, it looks like it can 
do Intel 10/100 devices and Realtek devices.

-- 
Andrew