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Re: [Xen-devel] BUG: [?] host-only networking under HVM is broken with custom script


  • To: Ray Barnes <tical.net@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:31:34 +0100
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:31:36 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] BUG: [?] host-only networking under HVM is broken with custom script

On 2/6/08 08:26, "Ray Barnes" <tical.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As an aside,
> most people (according to what I've read) seem to take it for granted
> that you should bring up the bridge outside of Xen (i.e. in the OS's
> network scripts).  Obviously that's a flawed methodology that doesn't
> scale well.  Surely there's a cleaner way of doing this?  Any plan to
> code something like this into a future release?

It depends what network topology you want. Most people want all VIFs on the
same bridge shared with a physical network interface.

What does bridge-per-vif let you do that you couldn't do by other means?

 -- Keir




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