[Xen-users] Communicating with VM before Network is configured.

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi folks,

  There is a fundamental problem with Xen (at least as far as my current 
knowledge go) in bootstrapping a fully functional virtual machine, and its that 
you need to configure the network manually through the console, and this makes 
it a little difficult to manage, especially in a remote setup. Is there some 
way I can communicate with a program running inside a VM.  The way it can work 
is that I have pre-created images all of which run a particular script. Now the 
there has to be some method to send data to this script. In Vmware, there is 
the vmService.exe program, using which you can get a particular string from the 
config file of the Virtual Machine (which is residing in the host).  So there 
should be an option called as 'communication-string' in the virtual machine 
config file, and there should be a Xen utility which can get you this value 
from inside the VM. This can be used to configure static ip addresses inside 
the virtual machine. So is there some such mechanism already for Xen?

  Thanks.



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