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Re: [Xen-users] New to xen, difficulty getting network going

To: Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] New to xen, difficulty getting network going
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:01:04 +0000
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Frank Van Damme wrote:
Hello,

I am future-proofing myself and learning the ways of Xen. I spent
roughly a working day reading documentation and setting up a test
system and got as far as being able to boot Mandriva 2006 as domU with
Debian Etch as Dom0.

However, networking is still a little difficult. I can't get the
network in domU to work. I ploughed through XenNetworking on the
xensource wiki, which states that Xen should automatically connect
vifN.X to ethX in domN. I use:

vif=['mac=']

in my config file. The error I get when I do "xm create -c mandriva2006" is:

Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.

My dom0 has the normal lo and eth0 interfaces...




I used to get this .. from memory there are some networking scripts under /etc and one of those had to be started/restarted. You might then run into further problems with Etch, someone recently posted a 4 step plan to working with Etch, but using Xen from unstable. So long as you remember the final step of copying kernel modules to the DomU it works very well!



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