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Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to disable vif completely?

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to disable vif completely?
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:45:19 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:30:28PM +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> I think comment " #vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:00:00:11, bridge=xen-br0' ]" can
> hide vif but failed try.

If you comment out the vif line, but don't set nics=0 then you will get the
default nics value, which is 1.  This means that it will try to create a nic
with default configuration, which will fail.  If you need no nics, you need to
explicitly say so, with nics=0.

This is confusing, and a mess, but I don't want to alter configuration file
behaviour this close to release, if I can help it.

Ewan.

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