Re: [Xen-users] centos jailtime image -- no network

["Jon Christensen" <jonc21@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have a DHCP server, so I need a static IP.  I did what you did
below w/out luck.


On 2/8/07, Jerry Amundson <jamundso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A little post-mortem on this, from my perspective anyway... I took a
> freshly installed linux box, added the RHEL 4.4 Xen 3.4.0.1 rpm from
> Xensource to make dom0, and booted into the jailtime image with the
> same kernel. It came up on the network without me even touching it.
>
> On 2/5/07, Jon Christensen <jonc21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using the jailtime centos4.4 image.  It boots up fine, however, I
> > cannot get networking to work.  Here is my cfg:
> >
> > kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5xenU"
>
> That kernel is certainly the problem - no xennet module built into it.
>
> > memory = 256
> > name = "foo"
> > vif = [ '' ]
> > disk = ['file:/home/foo/root,sda1,w',
> >         'file:/home/foo/swap,sda2,w',
> >         'file:/home/foo/home,sda3,w']
> > root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
> I assume you renamed the files from jailtime for root and swap, but
> created home yourself, not that it matters.
>
> > I cannot simply do an ifconfig eth0 ip.address netmask 255.255.255.0 in the
> > guest to bring up networking.  What am I missing?  DHCP is not an option
> > either.
>
> Nor should you need to ifconfig - the jailtime image has eth0
> configured for DHCP, the builtin kernel module gets the vif from dom0,
> and booting the image starts the interface. Like magic.....
>
> jerry
>
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