network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

Hi folks,

I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work with this Solaris version.

e1000 and pcnet work just by chance, as it seems. I can ping the guest (even though some packets are lost). I cannot use ssh to login.

rtl8139 and ne2k_pci are not listed by "ifconfig -a" on the guest.

Solaris 10u6 worked fine (using e1000).

Can anybody reproduce this problem?

Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated. Of course I would be glad to help to track this down.

Harri

Short update: Virtualbox 3.1.6 seems to be more reliable in this case.

Regards

Harri

I forgot to send my testing results.

I installed solaris from sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso. It were with the default rtl8138 NIC, and the installer configured rtls0 interface (so it actually at least recognizable).

I left `ping -f $solaris-ip' process running for whole night - it were still running in the morning without any visible issues, at 100% CPU usage (2 cores - for ping, host kernel and kvm processes).

Now, it looks like I forgot solaris enough to being unable to set up new network driver, so I can't easily switch to e1000. Maybe reinstall will be faster for me.

So, basically, I can't reproduce the issue.

/mjt