Thanks Daniel, Paolo already got it right, it's: <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-global'/> <qemu:arg value='virtio-net-pci.mrg_rxbuf=off'/> </qemu:commandline> -----Original Message----- From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:43 PM To: Naor Shlomo Cc: Paolo Bonzini; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Disabling mergeable rx buffers for the guest On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:40:28AM +0000, Naor Shlomo wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > For some unknown reason it suddenly started to accept the changes to the XML and the strings you gave me are now in place. > Upon machine start I now receive the following error messages: > > virsh # start NaorDev > error: Failed to start domain NaorDev > error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: kvm: -global: requires an argument > > Here's the XML: > > <qemu:commandline> > <qemu:arg value='-global'/> > <qemu:env name='mrg_rxbuf' value='off'/> > </qemu:commandline> Presumably what you wanted to do was <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-global'/> <qemu:arg value='mrg_rxbuf=off'/> </qemu:commandline> Rather than setting an environment variable. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����o�^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�