Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to disable vif completely?

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:20:43PM +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:

>       However, since netfront/netback hasn't been ported to IA64 now, it 
> always caused failure here after timout connecting to vif backend node.      
> I'll try to add a hack to prevent connecting to vif backend and see whether 
> forward progress. If you have simple way to do test, please help me. ;-)

So you don't want any networking at all?  In that case, set nics=0 in your xm
create configuration file, and all should be well!

>       By the way, the loopback driver is also not compiled into xen0/xenU 
> currently for XEN/IA64. Is there similar case to check vif0.0 for dom0 after 
> above point? That would make another failure obviously due to same reason. In 
> current stage, we only promise vbd working on IA64.

Dom 0's networking is handled separately.  You want to disable the
network-script option in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp, and that should be all that
is necessary.

Ewan.

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