Subject: Re: domU without network interfaces?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/12/2005 20:42:23
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:10:10PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   It should work if you build a kernel without xennet devices.
>   Because of the way Xen works, network and block devices are created after
>   the kernel is started, so we have to wait for them to show up to make sure
>   that the system will start properly. Currently the code waits for one
>   block device and one network device.
> 
> Probably a xen issue really, but this seems unclean, and it would be
> better to wait until the hypervisor indicates 'setup complete' and
> then find out which devices are there.

Unfortunably I'm not aware of such messages from the hypervisor.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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