Subject: Re: dom0/domU bridging - don't get it to work
To: Florian Heigl <floh@deranfangvomen.de>
From: Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
List: port-xen
Date: 09/12/2005 00:43:06
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to waste anyone's time, but I just don't get this to work.
>
> I'm running xen-2.0.7 on what I think is the most current snapshot of
> 3_BETA (NetBSD 3.0_BETA (XEN0) #0: Sat Aug 13 13:50:25), and my dom0
> luckily is running fine, with X and everything I could wish for.
>
> I'm trying to run another NetBSD in the first domU; after problems
> using a file backend I've simply plugged in an USB stick. It's too
> small for any real work of course, but OK for testing.
On a tangential note:
I had to severely hack block-file and vif-bridge in order for them to
work properly, the supplied versions seem to assume that they're running on a
linux machine. I'm sure others have done similar, but perhaps someone will
find mine useful. They're at:
http://ceri.storey.name/2005/09/12/NetBSD-xen/
--
Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
'What I really want is "apt-get smite"'
--Rob Partington <http://rjp.frottage.org>