I'm using FreeBSD 9.0 (FreeBSD freebsd9-i386 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE) as my guest OS with qemu-kvm (qemu-kvm-1.1-rc2/x86_64-softmmu/ qemu-system-x86_64) running on centos 6.2 (CentOS release 6.2) with 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 kernel. I am using Intel's 82599EB 10-Gigabit hardware on the host, which I am trying to export into the FreeBSD guest OS. The guest driver (version 2.4.4) will claim it. However, the status is shown as "no carrier" an therefore cannot ping any other system. $ ifconfig ix0 ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU, VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO> ether 90:e2:ba:0d:3d:b0 inet 4.4.4.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 4.4.4.255 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier On the host side, before the ixgbe is loaded in the guest, /proc/interrupts show the following entry for kvm # cat /proc/interrupts | grep kvm 30: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi kvm_assigned_intx_device However, after the driver is loaded, the above entry is gone but two new entries show up. # cat /proc/interrupts | grep kvm 76: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge kvm_assigned_msix_device 77: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edge kvm_assigned_msix_device. To make sure, the my host configurations are fine, I loaded linux guest, with exact same qemu params and host configurations. It works just fine. What I noticed in case linux guest is, to start with same entry is seen in /proc/interrupts. However, after the ixgbe is loaded in the guest, I see only one entry instead of two as in case of freebsd. # cat /proc/interrupts | grep kvm 30: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-fasteoi kvm_assigned_intx_device # cat /proc/interrupts | grep kvm 76: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI-edg kvm_assigned_msi_device Similar problem was reported earlier too: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/83806 Any ideas or advice will be highly valued Thanks, Shésha. -- 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