Re: [Xen-devel] Fw: [Xen-API] status of xen api

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/31/2007
08:18:55 AM:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > * I can't get the VDIs for a VBD (nor the VDIs for a SR).
How am I
> > >   supposed to get the backend of a VM's vbd?
> > > 
> > >   If I call the VBD.get_VDI, I get an empty value for
the ref
> > >   (communication attached).
> > 
> > Is this a domain that happens to only have a ramdisk?
> 
> No, it's a domain with a single block (and net) device.
> 
> > If you create a domain with access to a disk and use xm in xen-api
mode 
> > then does this still happen?  To do this you have to activate
the 'server' 
> > node in /etc/xen/xm-config.xml and add (xen-api-server (( 0.0.0.0:9363
> > none ))) to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp.
> 
> Thanks for the tip about xen/xend-config.sxp, I'll be able, at least,
to
> capture and analyze the traffic. ;)
> 
> And you're correct. With xm in xen-api mode, the newly created VM
has
> the correct VDI entry.
> 
> > > 
> > > * my network object has no PIFs, is this normal?
> > 
> > Not sure about this, though I'd say that the network should have
a list of 
> > PIFs with at least one PIF in it, which represents 'peth0'.
> 
> Hm, I personally don't use peth0. I use a bridge with IP address and
> attach the real eth0 to the bridge with my distro's usual configuration
> scripts.
> 
> So then, without peth0, this is expected?

Maybe this has changed over time, but at least now
peth0 is the physical interface and eth0 is the bridge. So I would expect
that now a network object contains a PIF with name 'peth0' and if I remember
correctly the last time I check it did. 

   Stefan
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