[Fedora-xen] running xen without libvirt, etc
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Sun Mar 27 15:56:58 UTC 2011
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:09:18PM -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Very confused as to which list I should post: xen, fedora, fedora-xen.
> Apologies if this is the wrong one. Pointer to the most appropriate
> list is welcome.
>
> Current system is f14 with full updates, myoung's kernel 2.6.32.+,
> booted with xen 4.0.1. Hardware is AMD with svm, lotsa ram.
>
> After fighting with the all-in-one GUIs for virtmanager I gave up and
> tried to recycle my configs from a 2006 box running xen3 (which still
> purrs) and can't even get past scripts/network-bridge without a hang or
> no bridges.
>
> I'm not asking for help on creating a vm, just on getting dom0 to
> recognize even one single bridge, even the default one. My feeling is
> that if I can get that far I can take it from here.
>
> Does anybody have a working example of a current xend-config.sxp for a
> machine running xend with f14?
>
You should set up the networking (bridges) using *distro* network scripts,
that has been the recommended way for a long time.
So use /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br* to create bridges.
The new xl/libxl toolstack in Xen 4.1.0 actually requires you to use distro network scripts.
-- Pasi
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