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

["Frank Van Damme" <frank.vandamme@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/20/06, Andrew McGregor <andy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!
Searched for that 4-step plan but did not find it. My problem may be
related to the fact that Debian does not run the bridging scripts by
default when starting xend. So I'm going to enable that and see what
it says. Also, I'll read those scripts. I suspect that there's a lot
to be learned from them.

Thank you!

--
Frank Van Damme

"All  PCs are compatible. But some of them are more compatible than
others." [Onbekend]

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