Hi Roberto

  We also used the ElRepo drivers in production - most of our e-learning
servers including BBB are on oVirt Gen8 hosts. No problems whatsoever

  The problem is that I could not find drivers for the kernel version of
the 4.4.10 release.

  Thomas


On Sat, 16 Apr 2022, 19:58 Roberto Nunin, <[email protected]> wrote:

> My cent.
>
> I've used both Gen8 and Gen9 with ElRepo drivers, in light production,
> without any problem, more than 2 years.
>
> Also qla2xxx driver was from ElRepo, being cluster with FC storage.
>
>
> Roberto
>
> Il Gio 14 Apr 2022, 08:04 Thomas Kamalakis <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
>> Thanks Darrell
>>
>>   I think I understand your point, but it looks to me like such a bother
>> to have to do things like this. I will try starting from 4.4.9.
>>
>>   Could a solution be to install Debian and run kvm to install the
>> ovirt-node? I guess you waste some resources doing this but maybe worth it
>> if you can skip all this kernel business.
>>
>>   BR
>>
>>   Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:35 PM Darrell Budic <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I hit this too, RH appears to have limited the supported PCI ids in
>>> their be2net and no longer includes the Emulex OneConnect in the list of
>>> supported IDs. I switched to the EL repo mainline kernels to resolve the
>>> issue on existing systems, it was a bit more fun on systems needing new
>>> installs of 8.x. I think I settled on installing an older system, switching
>>> kernels, and then upgrading to current.
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>>
>>>   -Darrell
>>>
>>> > On Apr 13, 2022, at 12:12 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> >  We have a large number of HP servers where we use Ovirt and we are
>>> having problems upgrading the nodes to Ovirt 4.4.10
>>> >
>>> >  More specifically the servers have the Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs
>>> and what we did in previous Ovirt node installations was to download the
>>> driver rpm (e.g. kmod-be2net-12.0.0.0-8.el8_5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm) and then
>>> install it using "rpm -ivh ... " and carrying out "modprobe be2net"
>>> >
>>> >  For 4.18.0-365 we could not find a separate rpm but it looks like
>>> this was included in kernel-modules-4.18.0-365.el8.x86_64.rpm (
>>> https://centos.pkgs.org/8-stream/centos-baseos-x86_64/kernel-modules-4.18.0-365.el8.x86_64.rpm.html)
>>> which is already installed. "modprobe be2net" produces no errors but the
>>> network interfaces do not show up in "ip -a" even after reboot.
>>> >
>>> >  Are we missing something here, or is our infrastructure unusable with
>>> 4.4.10? Things were working for 4.4.9.
>>> >
>>> >  Thanks!
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