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[Xen-users] Re: vif-route problems

Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:46:25AM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:39:48PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>>    After I sent the last email, I realised that one aspect of my
>>> system was unusual. It turns out that something -- I haven't worked
>>> out what yet (probably xend) -- requires and assumes the existence of
>>> eth0. I normally have my "eth0" device renamed to "wired", and my
>>> "eth1" device to "wireless". If I boot the machine without using
>>> nameif to change the device names, then the Xen route scripts allow a
>>> domU to start, and I can then configure the networking manually.
>> Ah...  You need to name the netdev in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
>>
>> Eg
>>
>>   (network-script 'network-route netdev=wired')
> 
>    Ah, gotcha. Thanks for that. For the record, I also found that I
> needed to set the same option for vif-script in the xend-config.sxp.

Hi Hugo and Nick,

I just wanted to say thanks for documenting this issue.  It helped me to
get around the same problem on my system, and i have been pulling my
hair out over it for hours!

Regards,
Paul
<http://paulgear.webhop.net>
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