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

["Jerry Amundson" <jamundso@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/8/07, Jon Christensen <jonc21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't have a DHCP server, so I need a static IP.  I did what you did
> below w/out luck.
If it didn't work, then you didn't do what I did below. Machines only
do exactly what we tell them - no luck is involved... ;-)

jerry

> 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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