Re: [Xen-users] New to xen, difficulty getting network going

[Andrew McGregor <andy@xxxxxxxx>]

Frank Van Damme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am future-proofing myself and learning the ways of Xen. I spent
> roughly a working day reading documentation and setting up a test
> system and got as far as being able to boot Mandriva 2006 as domU with
> Debian Etch as Dom0.
>
> However, networking is still a little difficult. I can't get the
> network in domU to work. I ploughed through XenNetworking on the
> xensource wiki, which states that Xen should automatically connect
> vifN.X to ethX in domN. I use:
>
> vif=['mac=']
>
> in my config file. The error I get when I do "xm create -c 
> mandriva2006" is:
> Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.
>
> My dom0 has the normal lo and eth0 interfaces...


I used to get this .. from memory there are some networking scripts 
under /etc and one of those had to be started/restarted.  You might then 
run into further problems with Etch, someone recently posted a 4 step 
plan to working with Etch, but using Xen from unstable.  So long as you 
remember the final step of copying kernel modules to the DomU it works 
very well!


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