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On 3/16/07, jez <jez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Peter

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:33:31PM +0100, Peter Fastré wrote:
>
> I have a working test server with Xen 3.0.4 on Slackware 11. Everything
> seems to be ok.
>
> Now there's the production server, which has 3 network cards. This is not ok
> with my Xen setup. I copied the complete Xen installation to the new server.
> It boots, it detects all network cards (eth0, eth1, eth2).
> But when I do xend start it goes wrong. I can do the xend start, but it
> takes a bit longer than on the other system.
> But I cannot start any domU's.
>

What is the output of ifconfig and "route -n" before you start xend?

before start:
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.200.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0    U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         10.200.1.1      0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0

after start:
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.200.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

What is it that you actually want xen to do with these three cards?

The server has 3 intel cards. For the moment, I just want to use two of them, one for the public addresses (195.x.x.x) which is different for each vm, and one for a private network which would be used to mirror some things between servers.

> I get the following error:
> root@vm01:~# xm create -c vm_base.cfg
> Using config file "/etc/xen/vm_base.cfg".
> Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
>
> Configuration file /etc/xen/vm_base.cfg
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz- 2.6-xenU"
> memory = 256
> name = "vm_base"
> vif = [ '' ]
> dhcp = "off"
> ip = "10.200.1.101"
> netmask = " 255.255.255.0"
> gateway = "10.200.1.1"
>
> disk = ['file:/xen/vm_base.img,sda1,w','file:/xen/vm_base.swap,sda2,w']
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>

Okay, this is not the cause of your problem, but I suggest that you
don't use dhcp, ip, netmask, and gateway settings in your configuration
file. AFAIK this puts all your networking configuration on the kernel
command line. It doesn't belong there - you should configure your DomUs
through their normal networking configuration files.

Removed all the ip settings (dhcp/ip/netmask/gateway). Error I get now is:

root@vm01:~# xm create vm_base.cfg
Using config file "/etc/xen/vm_base.cfg".
Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.

Hotplug -> do they mean udev? Udev is not changed compared to the normal installation, I think it's working normally as it should. I did disable it for the test domU's on my test machines (after I succesffully booted them). But on this server I can't boot any domain.

>
> Changing the vif = [''] line to vif0 or something, or remove it, as
> suggested in this mailing list, doesn't work.
>
> It has something to do with the multiple network cards, that's for sure.
> When I start the system (without Xen), everything's ok, I can connect to it,
> and the system can connect to anything.
> When I start xend, it removes my default route to internet (why would it do
> that), and creates the following network interfaces:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:33:3B:74
>          inet addr:10.200.1.100  Bcast:10.200.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:11774 (11.4 KiB)  TX bytes:5008 (4.8 KiB)
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 ( 0.0 b)
>
> peth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:1453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:119040 (116.2 KiB)  TX bytes:42201 (41.2 KiB)
>          Base address:0x2000 Memory:da000000-da020000
>
> vif0.1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:1438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:41418 (40.4 KiB)  TX bytes:111587 (108.9 KiB)
>
> xenbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> xenbr1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:1184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:67438 (65.8 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> ... with the known results (xm cannot start).
>

Are you missing output here or have eth1 and eth2 already disappeared by
this point?

Also, what is the output of "brctl show" and the output of "route -n"?

root@vm01:~# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
xenbr1          8000.feffffffffff        no              vif0.1
                                                        peth0

route -n you see above.

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