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I installed ClearVM on Supermicro A1SAM-2750F. I think the NIC of this motherboard is not supported. When I check "ifconfig" there is no ip adres assigned. Also ClearVM is complaining "Could not determine the host ipv4 adres". Is it possible to install this driver? The motherboard uses the "C2000 SoC I354 Quad GbE controllers".
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Friday, June 05 2015, 05:43 PM
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    Friday, June 05 2015, 06:52 PM - #Permalink
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    I have not got my mind round the ClearVM yet. Does it not run on a host o/s? If so it is probably the host o/s which needs to get its NIC driver sorted.

    From a bit of research the Supermicro board needs the igb nic driver. I don't know which version comes with the kernel, but I have a kmod one compiled here. Before installing make sure you are running at lease kernel version 2.6.32-504.8.1.v6.x86_64. If using an earlier kernel you'll need the over driver I have compiled in the same place.
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    Friday, June 05 2015, 07:49 PM - #Permalink
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    Yes, it runs on Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64

    So i have the download those driver from somewhere and copy it to usb stick and then install it on the ClearVM machine.
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    Friday, June 05 2015, 08:07 PM - #Permalink
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    Are you sure that will work? The only VM I've used is VirtualBox on WinXP/Win7. VirtualBox then presents an emulated NIC to the VM and it bears no relationship to the true NIC. It uses four different types of NIC, all old and very well established (e.g.Intel Pro/1000 MT) so most VM's should have no problems with them.

    It may be that debian needs an updated driver in which case mine won't work on it. Can you check it (the debian host) has internet connectivity? Also which NICs can it present to a VM?
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    Friday, June 05 2015, 08:20 PM - #Permalink
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    I'm not sure if I follow you completly...

    I have no network/internet connectivity on the ClearVM/Witsbits server. ClearVM/Witbits is a Debian distro.

    So Ithink I need a igb driver compiled for Debian then i need it to copy to a usb stick and install this on the ClearVM/Witsbits server. Correct?
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    Friday, June 05 2015, 08:26 PM - #Permalink
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    Marcel van Leeuwen wrote:

    I'm not sure if I follow you completly...

    I have no network/internet connectivity on the ClearVM/Witsbits server. ClearVM/Witbits is a Debian distro.

    So I think I need a igb driver compiled for Debian then i need it to copy to a usb stick and install this on the ClearVM/Witsbits server. Correct?
    Correct, I think, but I'll have to read up on the Witsbits thing to fully understand. You can get igb sources from the Intel site or Elrepo for the kmod version.
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    Tuesday, July 07 2015, 06:50 PM - #Permalink
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    Did some investigation and installed ClearVM on a other server. I had the same issue no network. it seems that newer Intel i210 ethernet controller is not supported by the kernel of Debian Wheezy. You need to install the kernel from the Wheezy-backports. See this reply from a guy on a other forum.


    It appears that the original issue was resolved by installing and booting to a newer kernel, which is packaged by Debian and available in wheezy-backports: http://backports.debian.org/ Kernels contain as many open-source drivers as possible.

    If you don't have a Net connection for your Debian machine, it is possible to download the appropriate kernel deb packages from packages.debian.org with another OS, then install them on your target machine.


    So I think the kernel needs a update from Wheezy backports.
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    Friday, July 31 2015, 04:55 AM - #Permalink
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    Is this issue already solved?

    I really want to try ClearVM on my Supermicro A1SAM-2750F. It uses C2000 SoC I354 Quad GbE controllers. If I'm correct ClearVM (Debian Weezy) is not supporting these controllers. The drivers are available in the backport repo of Wheezy.

    See this post
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