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

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Tue July 18 2006 01:22, Ligesh wrote:
> >  How do we do the same on a windows VM? On a remote hosting setup, it
> > is always preferable to assign static ips to the virtual machines.
> > DHCP is cumbersome method to manage ip addresses.
> 
> How DHCP got so darn popular, I'll never understand... ;-)


 With DHCP you have to keep track of two generally unmemorizable numbers--Mac 
address and the ipaddress. With the method I have described, you need to keep 
track of only one generally unmemorizable number, leading to a huge saving in 
neural energy, ultimately leading a better universe and good health for the 
entire species--not to mention that this is pivotal for the ultimate attainment 
of World peace. Isn't that reason enough?

> 
> Off the top of my head, there are a few cases to not use DHCP:
> 1. It's a DNS server.
> 2. It has a brain-damaged dhcp client that won't update DNS.
> 3. It's on a small and/or virtual net with no DHCP server.
> 

 I have a specific requirement to assign static ips to a VM. My question is: is 
there a way to accomplish this. In Vmware you can do it by defining a variable 
machine.id in the config file variable, which can be accessed from inside VM 
using the the vmware-guestd on linux or vmwareservice.exe on linux. This is 
generally a good idea, and I want to know if Xen supports something like this, 
or what I should do to get this implemented etc etc.


 Thanks.

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:: Ligesh :: http://ligesh.com 



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