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Re: [Xen-users] vif-route problems

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:26:08PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:58:07AM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>    No luck. Removing the xen-hotplug-common.sh script (or anything
> containing it, such as vif-common.sh) just causes it to wait for
> several minutes before failing with "Hotplug scripts not working"
> 
> > >    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.
> 
>    OK. I think this is looking like a bug of some kind in xend, but
> exactly what I don't know. Surely I can't be the only person who's got
> this problem, or is trying to do this?

   I'm still having this problem. Can anyone offer any further
suggestions or help? Is there a better forum to raise this issue in?
I'm at my wits' end here.

   Hugo.

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