assertion failure when using i82551 network card emulation

[salva]

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

Trying to install OpenBSD snapshot for the upcoming 4.6.

Qemu aborts with the following message:

$ qemu -cdrom ../iso/openbsd-snapshot-cdemu46.iso -boot d -net nic,model=i82551 -net user -no-kvm -m 256M openbsd-current.qcow2
qemu: /build/buildd/qemu-kvm-0.11.0/hw/eepro100.c:1176: eepro100_read2: Assertion `!"feature is missing in this emulation: " "unknown word read"' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 14:09:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 210L
Package: qemu-kvm 0.11.0-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=2f993a64-3e38-497b-84d4-d9d1691e3c29 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 03/29/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0WJ772
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd03/29/2006:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex210L:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WJ772:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 210L
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Looks like this is related: http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5170
Also lots of changes in branch master on hw/eepro100.c

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

According to the original bug reporter this problem has been resolved in Lucid.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Confirmed. This does appear to me to be fixed in Lucid, as I was able to use i82551 for networking.