[Xen-users] Xen Live CD network problem

["Bernard Golden" <bgolden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've executed the Xen Live CD (not Xenoppix) on an IBM Thinkpad T23. It comes up just fine, and I'm able to get a DomU up and running just fine as well, including a VNC desktop.

 

However, during bootup, the Dom0 puts a lot of DHCPDISCOVER on Eth0 to the screen, eventually comes back with "no DHCPOffers received" and then proceeds to boot. Executing ifconfig shows no IP address. If I then execute dhclient, I get an address. However, the DomU does not have network connectivity before or after the dhclient is executed on the Dom0. Since this is a LiveCD, obviously I haven't misconfigured the system, so wonder if someone can offer an insight about why this situation occurs.

 

BTW, this is the 4th machine I've executed the LiveCD on. Two of them were brand new dual core Athlons, and on both the display wouldn't work. I also tried executing it on a whitebox Athlon 64 3000 and right after the boot up process put up a message about the gnome display manager starting up, the screen went black. I guess I can understand the new machines perhaps having an issue with graphics device drivers, but why would a year-old machine not be able to start a graphic display?

 

 

 

Bernard Golden
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