Subject: Re: Cannot see boot messages with DomU
To: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/11/2008 11:42:22
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:05:45PM -0600, John Hayward wrote:
> Hi Xen People,
>    I am having no luck getting any messages on the console while 
> attempting to create a DOMU under xen.  I have NetBSD-4.0 and the
> xentools from Q4 pkgsrc.
> 
> Here is what I get when I attempt:
> ====
> newserver: {67} pwd
> /usr/pkg/etc/xen
> newserver: {68} ls
> netbd           scripts         vif-bridge      xend-config.sxp
> newserver: {69} xm create -c netbd
> Using config file "./netbd".
> newserver: {70} Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug 
> scripts not working.
> ====
> 
> It takes about 2 minuites between when I xm create and when the error
> occures.
> [...]
> kernel = "/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU"
> memory = 256
> name = "netbd"
> #cpu = -1   # leave to Xen to pick
> #nics = 1
> vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:50:02:f0, bridge=bridge0' ]

does bridge0 exists in dom0 ?

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