Subject: domU without network interfaces?
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/12/2005 13:02:41
Is it possible to create a guest domain without any network interfaces, 
e.g. set nics = 0 in the domain config file?  When I tried this and 
booted with the netbsd-INSTALL_XENU kernel, the boot hung after finding 
the disk devices.

	Thanks,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>

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NetBSD 3.0_BETA (INSTALL_XENU) #0: Wed Oct 12 00:08:26 EDT 2005
 
jlam@dragon.hq.williamlam.com:/local/sources/anoncvs.netbsd.org/netbsd-3
/i386/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL_XENU
total memory = 26188 KB
avail memory = 25504 KB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Intel Xeon (686-class), 3181.23 MHz, id 0xf25
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu0: I-cache 12K uOp cache 8-way, D-cache 8 KB 64B/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 4K/4M: 128 entries
cpu0: DTLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu0: 16 page colors
hypervisor0 at mainbus0
debug virtual interrupt using event channel 2
misdirect virtual interrupt using event channel 0
Domain controller: using event channel 1
xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver
xencons0: console major 143, unit 0
Initialising Xen virtual ethernet frontend driver.
npx0 at hypervisor0: using exception 16
Xen clock: using event channel 3
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
md0: internal 5000 KB image area
xbd: using event channel 4
xbd0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Block Device 512 MB
xbd1 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Block Device 200 MB