[SOLVED] Re: [Xen-users] Problem with eth0 with a Debian DomU on Fedora Core 5

[Chris Croome <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

OK, for starters I was trying to run sarge with a 2.4.x kernel.. doh!

So I have now set up a etch machine and this works fine :-)

The key things I needed to do was copy over
/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5xenU/ into the DomU machine and then do
this to get the xennet module to load on boot:

   echo "alias eth0 xennet" > /etc/modprobe.d/xen

Now to install a 2.6 kernel on sarge...

Chris

On Wed 26-Apr-2006 at 10:46:13AM +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
> 
> A lot of people seem to have had problems running DomU's that are not
> FC5 on FC5 Dom0's, the issue being that etho doesn't appear for the DomU
> machine (I have read a lot of list archives this week...) -- I have this
> problem when I boot a debian sarge on FC5 (I have a FC5 DomU working
> without a problem):
> 
>   Setting up networking...done.
>   Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
>   Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
>   SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>   Failed to bring up eth0.
>   done.
> 
> And after it's booted there is only the loopback interface:
> 
>   # ifconfig         
>   lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>             inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>             UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>             RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>             TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>             RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> The answer that seems to have worked for FC4 guests on FC5 was in this
> email:
> 
>   Subject:      Re: Device eth0 does not seem to be present
>   From:         Phil Evans <xenmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:         Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:57:08 +0100
> 
>   Are you using the stock FC5 Xen kernels? If so, you will need to add the 
>   following line to the /etc/modprobe.conf files in your domU:
> 
>   alias eth0 xennet
> 
> However I haven't had any luck with this on debian, I tried adding this
> to /etc/modutils/aliases and /etc/modutils/actions and /etc/modules
> since /etc/modprobe.conf is automatically generated on debian, but no
> luck with any of them.
> 
> I tried loading the module manually:
> 
>   # /sbin/modprobe xennet
>   modprobe: Can't open dependencies file 
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5xenU/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
> 
> This doesn't work since /lib/modules/ is empty, and I found this in the
> archives:
> 
>   Subject:      Re: eth0 not showing up in guest domains
>   From:         Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:         Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:31:36 -0500
> 
>   The guest kernel is built with a modular xennet, so you'll need to have
>   the modules in the filesystem image as well.
> 
> So I tried mounting the disk in Dom0 and copying across the files:
> 
>   # mount -o loop /usr/local/xen/sarge /media/sarge
>   # cp -a /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5xenU/ /media/sarge/lib/modules/
> 
> When I then boot the DomU I still get the same errors as above but I get
> a different error when trying to load the xennet module:
> 
>  # /sbin/modprobe xennet
>  Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
>  /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5xenU/modules.dep
>  modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
> 
>  modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
> 
>  modprobe: Can't locate module xennet

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