[Xen-devel] issues with running xend init.d script

[Michael J Coss <mjcoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure that this is the correct place to post this but when I tried to 
start xend from the init.d directory, I ran into 2 problems. 

The first issue was that xend wants to check the Xen is running, and 
does that by checking /proc/xen/capabilities, which requires xenfs to be 
mounted.  It was not in the fstab, and so wasn't mounted.  This should 
probably should be in the install setup somewhere, or maybe the first 
time the xend is run, it checks to see if it's mounted and if it isn't 
tries to mounts it and adds an entry to fstab if successful. 

The second issue was that the script network-bridge didn't handle my 
network interfaces properly.  I tracked down the problem to the fact 
that the script, in the function get_ip_info() uses "ip addr show dev" 
to get the ip address and broadcast address.  Unfortunately on my 
machine, I have ipv6 configured, and so there is a second inet line for 
the link local ipv6 address.  As a temporary hack, I added "scope 
global" to the ip command, and the network is setup albeit without 
ipv6.  This certainly isn't a real fix, but does fix the case where the 
ipv6 is only a local address.
---Michael J Coss

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