Re: [Xen-users] vif-route problems

[Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:28:08PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:07:53PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:54:44PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > >    I've been trying for the last couple of days to get a routed
> > > network setup functioning, preliminary to modifying the scripts
> > > (simply) to do ip masquerading. I'm running on a Core 2 Duo laptop,
> > > with a single (variable) IP address.
> [snip]
> > > hrm@willow:scripts$ sudo xm create rhel4-base
> > > Using config file "/etc/xen/rhel4-base".
> > > Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.
> > 
> > It is a bug AFAICT
> > 
> >   http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=584
> 
>    In that report, at least the domain starts. In my case, it doesn't.

Hmm... It sounds like the same problem just with different symptoms...

You could comment everything out of vif-route to see if you can get
the domain up.

>    Note also that my problem is being triggered _before_ qemu-ifup is
> run, so I doubt that putting things in the script is going to help...

Note it isn't actually defined whether vif-route runs before qemu-ifup
or after - I've certainly seen both cases.

-- 
Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

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