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

["Ray Barnes" <tical.net@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Couldn't you route directly to the vif, and get rid of the bridges entirely?

I could - but it would be a worse hack (IMO).  I just ran a few tests
and surprisingly, routed vifs work, however the IP for the VIF must be
set in qemu-ifup and not in the custom vif script.  Forgive my
ignorance of what goes on "behind the curtain" but it seems to me that
not being able to override qemu-ifup (i.e. specifying a script to be
run instead of qemu-ifup) is the hangup here.  So the only way I could
use straight VIFs with no bridge is if I put a bunch of 'case'
statements for each vif/IP in qemu-ifup which will break my
provisioning model a bit; it would be easier to use bridges with the
aforementioned hack.  Should this be revisited in development or am I
way off base here?

-Ray

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