Hi Lucas, i covered below tests on RHEL 5.5 , RHEL 6 guests with vhost enbled. Please find the below errors and cause for errros. I also attached few other test cases can be added to out TODO list of network patchset. I am working on couple of these issues. 1. Nice_promisc: ----------------- With RHEL 5.5: PASS With RHEL 6: FAIL its failing to login to the RHEL6 guest by serial. 02:07:06 ERROR| Test failed: TestFail: Could not log into guest 'vm2' 2. nicdriver_unload -------------------------------- With RHEL 5.5: FAIL With RHEL 6: FAIL 03:17:26 DEBUG| Got shell prompt -- logged in 03:17:26 DEBUG| Contents of environment: {'address_cache': {'00:1a:4a:65:09:09': '192.168.122.66', '9a:52:2f:62:dd:52': '192.168.122.39', '00:1a:64:12:e4:c1': '9.126.89.23', '9a:52:2f:62:1a:b8': '192.168.122.95', '9a:52:2f:62:e6:67': '192.168.122.176', '9a:52:2f:62:8c:b8': '192.168.122.59', '9a:52:2f:62:0b:38': '192.168.122.7'}, 'vm__vm2': <kvm_vm.VM instance at 0x2311f80>, 'tcpdump': <kvm_subprocess.kvm_tail instance at 0x2314710>, 'version': 0} 03:17:26 INFO | ['iteration.1'] 03:17:26 0x2314710>ERROR| Exception escaping from test: Traceback (most recent 0x2314710>call last): File 0x2314710>"/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/common_lib/test.py", 0x2314710>line 412, in _exec _call_test_function(self.execute, *p_args, 0x2314710>**p_dargs) File 0x2314710>"/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/common_lib/test.py", 0x2314710>line 598, in _call_test_function return func(*args, **dargs) File "/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/common_lib/test.py", line 284, in execute postprocess_profiled_run, args, dargs) File "/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/common_lib/test.py", line 202, in _call_run_once self.run_once_profiling(postprocess_profiled_run, *args, **dargs) File "/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/common_lib/test.py", line 308, in run_once_profiling self.run_once(*args, **dargs) File "/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/tests/kvm/kvm.py", line 73, in run_once run_func(self, params, env) File "/home/pradeep/vhost_net/autotest/client/tests/kvm/tests/nicdriver_unload.py", line 27, in run_nicdriver_unload raise error.TestFail("Could not log into guest '%s'" % vm.name) 3. Netperf -------------- RHEL 5.5: FAIL RHEL6: FAIL some tests fail with TCP_CRR, UDP_RR are failed. Looks like a bug.. 4.multicast ------------- RHEL 5.5: fail RHEL 6: PASS 09:14:44 DEBUG| Command failed; status: 147, output: join_mcast_pid:8638 [1]+ Stopped python /tmp/join_mcast.py 20 225.0.0 1 09:14:44 INFO | Initial ping test, mcast: 225.0.0.1 09:14:44 DEBUG| PING 225.0.0.1 (225.0.0.1) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 56(84) bytes of data. 09:15:03 DEBUG| 09:15:03 ERROR| Test failed: TestFail: Ping return non-zero value PING 225.0.0.1 (225.0.0.1) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 56(84) bytes of data. 5. mac_chnage ------------- RHEL 5.5: PASS RHEL6: FAIL Trying to log into guest 'vm2' by serial login fail This is the reason for nic_promisc also. 6. jumbo: ---------- RHEL:5.5 FAIL RHEL6: FAIL 09:50:55 DEBUG| PING 10.168.0.9 (10.168.0.9) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 16082(16110) bytes of data. 09:50:57 DEBUG| 09:50:57 DEBUG| --- 10.168.0.9 ping statistics --- 09:50:57 DEBUG| 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2134ms 09:50:57 DEBUG| 09:50:57 DEBUG| (Process terminated with status 1) 09:50:58 DEBUG| PING 10.168.0.9 (10.168.0.9) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 16082(16110) bytes of data. 09:51:00 DEBUG| 09:51:00 DEBUG| --- 10.168.0.9 ping statistics --- 09:51:00 DEBUG| 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2047ms 09:51:00 DEBUG| 09:51:00 DEBUG| (Process terminated with status 1) 09:51:01 DEBUG| PING 10.168.0.9 (10.168.0.9) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 16082(16110) bytes of data. 09:51:03 DEBUG| 09:51:03 DEBUG| --- 10.168.0.9 ping statistics --- 09:51:03 DEBUG| 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2041ms 09:51:03 DEBUG| 09:51:03 DEBUG| (Process terminated with status 1) 09:51:04 DEBUG| PING 10.168.0.9 (10.168.0.9) from 9.126.89.201 e1000_0_5900: 16082(16110) bytes of data. 09:51:06 DEBUG| 09:51:06 DEBUG| --- 10.168.0.9 ping statistics --- 09:51:06 DEBUG| 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2036ms 09:51:06 DEBUG| 09:51:06 DEBUG| (Process terminated with status 1) 09:51:07 DEBUG| Timeout elapsed 09:51:07 DEBUG| e1000_0_5900 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1E:1D:84:CF:CD:6B 04:45:11 DEBUG| Running 'arp -d 192.168.122.115 -i e1000_0_5900' 04:45:11 ERROR| Test failed: TestError: MTU is not as expected even after 10 seconds 7. file_transfer ---------------- RHEL 5.5: FAIL file transfer pass from host to guest. file transfer fail while transferring from guest to host Need to debug further for this. RHEL 6: pass 8. ethtool ------------------- RHEL 5.5: PASS RHEL6: FAIL 05:26:44 DEBUG| Command failed; status: 92, output: Cannot set large receive offload settings: Operation not supported 05:26:44 ERROR| Fail to enable lro 05:29:44 ERROR| Test failed: TestError: Enable/disable offload function fail ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We may include below tests to for Network Patch set: I am working on couple of issues among below mentioned. Ping6 testing * ping6 with various message sizes guest to/from local/remote host using link-local addresses By default IPv6 seems to be disabled on virbr0. Enable it by doing NIC bonding test : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Nic_Bonding NFS testing * create NFS server on guest, mount dir on host, copy and delete files, do reverse on host Setting and unsetting ethernet adapters. set_link name [up|down] Multiple Nics Stress Run parallel netperf sessions across multiple virtio-net NICs on the guest -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html