XenServer 6.5(SP1) - HVM 're0: watchdog timeout' errors...

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 07 September 2015 16:51 +0200 Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com> 
wrote:

> This sounds like a problem in the if_re driver on FreeBSD or a bug in
> Qemu emulation. As a workaround, could you try to use the emulated e1000
> instead of the realtek? AFAIK it should also provide better performance.
>
> Since you are using XenServer I'm not sure of the exact rune, with OSS
> Xen you basically need to add "model=e1000" to the network configuration
> line.

Hi Roger,

I'd love to try that - but as we're running full 'XenServer' (i.e. 
installed from XenServer .ISO) I have no idea where (or even if it's 
possible) to set that :(

Last time I tried looking it up I hit a bit of a dead end, I'll have 
another look [in fact, I think it may have actually been impossible to set 
in XenServer as I seem to remember someone saying that XenServer doesn't 
have that NIC model/emulation available, only Realtek or PV!]

But I'll have another look...

-Karl