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FelixH Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 03:35 PM

[Implemented] IPVA and Qemu/KVM

Hello together,

i am trying to deploy an ipva appliance on a KVM Host.

The vm starts but says no "NIC unavailable!".

KVM distribute three NIC devices.

1. E1000

2. Virtio

3. rtl8139

As i can read the IPVA supports only AMD NIC AM79C970A.

So maybe someone had the same challenge in the past and can give me a hint how to solve this issue.

kind regards,

Felix

(Edited by Sebastian Hayer-Lutz (innovaphone) - original submission Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 10:46 AM)

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FelixH Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 10:54 AM

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Re: IPVA and Qemu/KVM

SOLVED:

Another Forum Post gaves me the hint that i have to use "pcnet" as nic driver.

So for others who have the same task to do:

Open the config with

virsh edit <DomainName>

Search for the network entry

Edit the row with <model type='e1000 (or smomething else)'/> TO

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marcis Monday, 28 September 2020, 03:36 PM

Re: IPVA and Qemu/KVM

Hi! Would You mind sharing VM configuration and versions You used? So far I'm unsuccessful booting this on KVM (CentOS 8). I need to migrate customer VM from ESXi to KVM. I'm provided with OVF export from VMware, converted VMDKs and and configured VM to boot from 500MB disk (MSDOS partition table) "Loading failed for image=IPVA BIN"

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marcis Friday, 2 October 2020, 05:59 PM

Re: IPVA and Qemu/KVM

I was able to successfully boot clean appliance. Turns out provided export from VMware was damaged

However 'pcnet` drivers are dropped since RHEL7, have to work around this and then we're getting somewhere.

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Sebastian Hayer-Lutz (innovaphone) Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 03:35 PM in response to FelixH

Re: IPVA and Qemu/KVM

Hello everyone,

With 14r1 Beta 4, the IPVA will also support KVM + QEMU environments in the future

We have already tested Proxmox 8.0 and 8.1 positively.

All information on the release of Beta 4 will be posted in the Community PBX at https://community.innovaphone.com/.

Technical information can then be found here: https://wiki.innovaphone.com/index.php?title=Reference14r1:Concept_Innovaphone_Virtual_Appliance#Applies_To

We would be very pleased if you would also test this in your environment and give us feedback in the Community PBX.

Best regards Basti

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