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Re: [Xen-users] network-bridge does not create veth or peth devices

To: Ingard Mevåg <ingardm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] network-bridge does not create veth or peth devices
From: Luciano Rocha <strange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:02:05 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:52:34PM +0100, Ingard Mevåg wrote:
>  Hi
> 
>  I am trying to install xen (64bit) on a Dell PowerEdge 2900.
> 
>  The installation process was something like the following:
> 
>  -----
>  apt-get install iproute bridge-utils python-twisted binutils zlib1g-dev 
>  python-dev transfig bzip2 screen ssh debootstrap libcurl3-dev 
>  libncurses5-dev x-dev build-essential gettext python-pyopenssl python-pam 
>  python-xml latex tetex-extra tetex-base texlive-latex-recommended
> 
>  hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.1-testing.hg
>  cd xen-3.1-testing.hg/
> 
>  make world
>  make install
> 
>  apt-get install yaird
>  mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen 2.6.18-xen
>  update-rc.d xend defaults 20 21
>  update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20
> 
>  nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst
>  # edited the following:
> 
>  ## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
>  # xenhopt=dom0_mem=512M com1=9600,8n1 vcpus=1
>  ## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
>  # xenkopt=console=tty0 maxcpus=1 console=ttyS0,9600n8
> 
>  update-grub
>  -----
> 
>  after a reboot everything looks just fine, except:
> 
>  ifconfig shows only a xenbr0, no peth or veth.. The network works, creating 
>  a guest with xen-tools works, however the bridging is weird:
> 
>  -----
>  $brctl show
>  bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
>  xenbr0          8000.00188b82f742       no              eth0
>                                                          vif1.0
>  -------
> 

Good. I was tired of Xen's insistence in veth/peth for no good reason.
Bridge in Linux has always been done by setting a bridge and add the
real IP to it.

At most, Xen could rename the bridge to the real interface name, but I
never saw the point on adding another path (veth) to the network.

>  I installed debian minimal, maybe there are some packages that needs to be 
>  there in order to get this to work which i might have missed?

Why do you want veth? I've always used my own network-bridge script, and
not using veth prevented some problems and brought none.

-- 
lfr
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