Re: [Xen-users] Need help setting up guest's networking

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yevgeniy Goldberg wrote:
> Nico,
> Wouldn't vif name assigned by xeb based on the Domain id? (ie if the 
> DomU is 5 then it will become vif5.0)
> Alos,
> I've misspoke when I said that I was setting the static IP for the 
> guest's vif from the Dom0 - I was doing that inside the actual DomU.
> Also, I have a win 2003 server guest on the same xen host and 
> networking works just fine on that one.
> Both configs are found in my initial post.
> Let me know what you think and THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO HELP ME!
From experience, if you do "xm shutdown DOMAIN" and "xm create DOMAIN", 
it winds up with a new vifname unless it's hard-coded, much the same way 
you wind up with a new MAC address unless you hard-code it.
The vifname renaming makes SNMP tracking of traffic for specific domains 
a serious pain.
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