Thanks for the help Pasi. So why use Debian network scripts in lieu of Xen scripts when the Debian wiki doesn't suggest it?
I removed 'bridge=eth0' from the network-script line but I'm still having trouble with the xen daemon. When I boot up it isn't running and when I shutdown it still hangs apparently because it's getting no response from eth0. Do I have to do something to make my change to xend-config.sxp permanent?
When I try and start up xend I see this error:
# xend start
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy
/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge: line 240: sigerr: command not found
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:14:06PM -0600, Ted Brenner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup Xen 4.0 on Debian Squeeze. I've been following this
> wiki for the most part. [1]http://wiki.debian.org/Xen. When I first went
> through the process, after rebooting I just got a blank black screen with
> no grub. So after reinstalling my OS I've been rebooting after every step
> and everything works fine (not sure why I got the grub error the first
> time). But after uncommenting the network-script part of xen-config.sxp
> file and adding 'network-bridge antispoof=yes', things start to act up.
> The first thing I noticed was that shutdowing down the dom0 now hangs,
> usually at the point of stopping the xend daemon. So I tried adding
> 'bridge=eth0'. Nothing really change but I still installed a domU, Ubuntu
> Maverick. However, I couldn't connect as I was getting errors like this:
>
> Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
>
> Checking the hotplug log it said this
> can't add vif1.0 to bridge eth0: Operation not supported
>
Sounds like 'eth0' is not a bridge. So probably wrong bridge= parameter used for that vm.
eth0 is my dom0 network interface so the problem is that it is already in use correct?
> So I'm wondering how I should be setting up the network-scripts. Every
> instruction I read mentions it but they all seem to have slightly
> different variants. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm running on
> amd64 platform.
>
I'd recommend to disable xen network-script in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
and set up the required bridges using debian network scripts.
-- Pasi
