[Fedora-xen] eth0 not showing up in guest domains

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:03 -0700, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:58am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:53 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
> > > As far as the xennet modules, I'm guessing I need to download the
> > > kernel source, build the xennet module and copy it over. Will this work?
> >
> > The modules are in the actual package, but since you're booting with a
> > kernel outside the filesystem, it doesn't work so well.  IMHO, the whole
> > model of booting a kernel from outside of the guest filesystem is pretty
> > broken as there's a fair bit of userspace which ends up depending pretty
> > closely on the kernel these days.
> 
> Which is why I build a client kernel package that has everything but the 
> kernel image itself in it (i.e. the modules).  This gets installed inside the 
> guest environment, satisfying the RPM dependency for other packages.

Why not install the actual kernel package in the guest environment and
then use pygrub?

Jeremy