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[Xen-users] RE: Basic Xen Questions

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Subject: [Xen-users] RE: Basic Xen Questions
From: "Johnson, Michael" <mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:18:46 -0400
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Here is what I get when I do an ifconfig -a.  eth0 is the physical card/address.  How do I configure the virtual interface with a different IP and connect to it via ssh or telnet?
 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6B:8C:D5:54
          inet addr:10.131.142.213  Bcast:10.131.142.255  Mask:255.255.255.128
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:6bff:fe8c:d554/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:252681 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:18191313 (17.3 MiB)  TX bytes:183225 (178.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:24
 
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6B:8C:D5:55
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:25
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1824719 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1824719 (1.7 MiB)
 
sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
 
vif1.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:250606 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
 
xen-br0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6B:8C:D5:54
          inet addr:10.131.142.213  Bcast:10.131.142.255  Mask:255.255.255.255
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:252211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:13616114 (12.9 MiB)  TX bytes:161560 (157.7 KiB)


From: Michael J. Baysek [mailto:mjbaysek@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:08 PM
To: Johnson, Michael; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Basic Xen Questions

I did the favor of making a new thread for this...

Firstly.  If you have not yet, http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart

I can tell you that even since FC4 was released, Xen has changed a lot.  Since the FC4 packages are reflecting the 3.0 development, using the Xen 2.0 user guide is not 100% accurate, I have tried.  Also, it seems that the latest FC release 1447 of Xen is noticably different than the 1398 release, as some of the xm commands are different.  Personally I would expect future releases to do the same so I suggest test any upgrades on a staging server.

About Network:  As long as you have nics=1 in your conf file for your domU, the network device should be available in your guest OS as eth0.  In Redhat-esque style, you would edit your network config in /etc/sysconfig/.  I just copied /etc/sysconfig/network* from another machine, and did a
grep -rin "192.168.0.3" /etc/sysconfig/*  
for the IP of the machine I took the config from, and updated to the new IP for my domU.

As far as installing OS other than FC4 inside of domU, I have installed CentOS.  Here are the steps I have used.  I imagine you can use this for any distro that uses Yum. 

  1. Create my image (I use LVM, but you can use loopback), mke2fs -j to that image
  2. Temporarily move  /etc/yum.repos.d/* files out of that directory
  3. Copy Centos-Base.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d/
  4. Edit Centos-Base.repo to replace all the of variables with the values you want.  Yum can't install for a different releasever and basearch, so you set these by hand in the repo file.  You could also install from local filesystem like DVD by using file:// instead of http in the repo file.
  5. Mount the image to /mnt/tmpdir
  6. yum --installroot=/mnt/tmpdir -y groupinstall Base
  7. Follow the rest of the steps in the Fedora Xen Howto for the rest.
I also have been running Gentoo 2005.0 which I moved over from User-Mode-Linux.

Hope this helps.



Johnson, Michael wrote:
Hi,
Could you help me with a few Xen questions?  It's basic stuff.  I'm
looking at Xen for the first time.  We have VMWare already up and
running and are happy with it but I was asked to look at Xen.  

I installed FC4 from cd and chose to install everything, including Xen.
Following the Xen User's manual Xen v2.0 for x86 I have a dom0 setup and
created a second domain and called it rawhide.

Question,
How do I configure rawhide with an IP so I can either ssh or telnet to
it?

Have you installed other operating systems, i.e. RedHat EL3.0 to run in
a domain? 

Thanks,
Mike

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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael J.
Baysek
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:21 PM
To: Eric Brown
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xm shutdown & xm destroy won't get rid of VM

I too have this problem:

    # xm list

    Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU VCPU(s)  State  Time(s)
    Domain-0           0       91    0      1   r----   6753.9
    lick              11        0    0      1   ----c      0.3
    lick              11        0    0      1   ----c      0.3
    lmon               4      255    0      1   -b---  34997.5
    lots               5      191    0      1   -b---   5210.1
    loud               6      511    0      1   -----   6138.4

      

In my case this happened after I ran out of memory in the lick domU (no
swap was setup yet). The oom-killer hosed the domU. Even the console. So
I tried to destroy and start another. It was then that I did an xm list,
to my horror.



Eric Brown wrote:
  
I tried "xm shutdown" and then "xm destroy", my listing still shows:

$ xm list
Name Id Mem(MB) CPU State Time(s) Console Domain-0 0 156 0 r---- 766.2
    

  
asgtest0 9 0 3 -b--- 1.2 9609 debianarchive 15 255 1 -b--- 6.4 9615

What should i do to get rid of asgtest0?

Thanks!


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