Subject: Re: domU network configuration in xen config file
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/11/2006 22:52:37
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> it is possible to specify an unprivileged domain's network configuration in
> its Xen config file, with the "ip", "netmask", "gateway", "hostname" and/or
> "dhcp" config parameters.  Linux domU's respect these parameters and use it
> when booted, but NetBSD doesn't seem to.   Is it possible to implement this
> for NetBSD, too?  I guess these parameters are somehow passed to the kernel
> when loaded, but I don't know how.  

This will only be used if you use
options         NFS_BOOT_DHCP,NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM,NFS_BOOT_BOOTSTATIC
in your kernel config file, and use root on NFS.

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