Re: Fw: [Xen-devel] Xen on /. again

[Jody Belka <lists-xen@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:22:20AM +0000, Mark A. Williamson wrote:
> > The only thing right now is that i can't see how to get the backend 
> > interface to be created anywhere other than dom0. I can set up a domain as
> > a network interface backend ok, and i can create a domain with a vif
> > pointing at that domain, but no new vif appears in the network backend dom.
> 
> Are you specifying what backend the frontend should be connected to in the 
> frontend's config file?

Yes

> Are you specifying that the backend is a backend in its config file?

Yes

> > NB2: Again, i don't know if it's still the case, but the network backend
> > driver can't be built without physical device access enabled, but there
> > isn't a dependency for that in the kernel config system.
> 
> Currently backends are built iff physical device access is enabled, since the 
> assumption is that they will run in a privileged domain and virtualise a real 
> device.

What i was meaning, was that the network backend can be chosen in the config
without physical device access enabled, but the kernel won't then build.


J

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Jody Belka
knew (at) pimb (dot) org


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