On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:52:37PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
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.
Why couldn't it use this info (pass it on to userland) in other (non-diskless)
cases? Linux domU's can do it, and it looks like a useful feature to me (e.g.
sending a generic domU image to your Xen hosting provider without having to
worry about the network configuration; they would simply provide it in the Xen
config file and your NetBSD domU would use that info).