I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly before I create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources (2.6.16-rc5) and xen 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is activated. At this point the network is active and I can ping. Then I shutdown net.eth0 and start xend. This restarts net.eth0 and does some other stuff. Now every thing looks normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I cannot ping anything. I have seen some other posts like this but I am not getting any "WATCHDOG" messages. I have also seen some advice about configuring APIC in the kernel but I have a P4 HT running as SMP, so this option is not available. Any ideas? Also, usually I select VESA for the console with VGA=792. With xen this seems to be ignored and I get "elephant font" which is not very convenient! Any tricks available here? TIA -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain''t no Ten Commandments an'' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, is there perhaps a firewall which intercepts the packages? Immanuel Robin Atwood wrote:> I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly before I > create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources (2.6.16-rc5) and xen > 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is activated. At this point the > network is active and I can ping. Then I shutdown net.eth0 and start xend. > This restarts net.eth0 and does some other stuff. Now every thing looks > normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I cannot ping anything. I have seen some other > posts like this but I am not getting any "WATCHDOG" messages. I have also > seen some advice about configuring APIC in the kernel but I have a P4 HT > running as SMP, so this option is not available. Any ideas? > > Also, usually I select VESA for the console with VGA=792. With xen this seems > to be ignored and I get "elephant font" which is not very convenient! Any > tricks available here? > > TIA > -Robin._______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:19, Immanuel Scheerer wrote:> Hi, > > is there perhaps a firewall which intercepts the packages?Well, I have a firewall but this does not normally stop me pinging my router! The network works fine until I start xend. Cheers.. -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain''t no Ten Commandments an'' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Maybe you could post some parts of your configuration, for example your modified /etc/conf.d/net and xend-config.sxp Regards Philipp Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2006 15:15 schrieb Robin Atwood:> I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly > before I create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources > (2.6.16-rc5) and xen 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is activated. > At this point the network is active and I can ping. Then I shutdown > net.eth0 and start xend. This restarts net.eth0 and does some other stuff. > Now every thing looks normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I cannot ping > anything. I have seen some other posts like this but I am not getting any > "WATCHDOG" messages. I have also seen some advice about configuring APIC in > the kernel but I have a P4 HT running as SMP, so this option is not > available. Any ideas? > > Also, usually I select VESA for the console with VGA=792. With xen this > seems to be ignored and I get "elephant font" which is not very convenient! > Any tricks available here? > > TIA > -Robin._______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:57, Jan Philipp Giel wrote:> Maybe you could post some parts of your configuration, for example your > modified /etc/conf.d/net and xend-config.sxpI followed the Gentoo + Xen HOWTO and didn''t modify either of those files. In xend-config.sxp I left the setting "(network-script network-bridge)" which what I want, I think. /etc/conf.d/net is unchanged: modules=( "ifconfig" ) config_eth0=( "192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255" ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) As I said, the network "looks" normal, the routes are there, just no packets flow. Should I have made changes? Cheers... -Robin, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain''t no Ten Commandments an'' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Robin Atwood wrote:>>is there perhaps a firewall which intercepts the packages? > > > Well, I have a firewall but this does not normally stop me pinging my router! > The network works fine until I start xend.Actually even the ping requests must be forwarded over the bridge to the physical network device: eth0 -> xenbr0 -> peth0 Maybe this forwarding is not working. And this might be caused by the firewall, even if everything works if xend is not running. Cheers, Immanuel _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Robin Atwood wrote:> I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly before I > create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources (2.6.16-rc5) and xen > 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is activated. At this point the > network is active and I can ping. Then I shutdown net.eth0 and start xend. > This restarts net.eth0 and does some other stuff. Now every thing looks > normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I cannot ping anything.I have the same problem. I have to add xend to default runlevel (rc-update add xend default) then reboot the machine. But I still can not restart xend. /etc/init.d/restart causes lost network connection. HTH, Tuan V. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:47:32AM -0800, Tuan Van wrote:> Robin Atwood wrote: > >I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly > >before I create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources > >(2.6.16-rc5) and xen 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is activated. > >At this point the network is active and I can ping. Then I shutdown > >net.eth0 and start xend. This restarts net.eth0 and does some other stuff. > >Now every thing looks normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I cannot ping > >anything.I am confused as to why you are shutting down eth0 before starting xend. Is this something I missed in the manual? I use Gentoo and Xen3 and just added the init scripts from /usr/portage/app-emulation/xen/files to my /etc/init.d folder and told rc-update to start them on a normal boot. -- Andrew Thompson http://aktzero.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Thursday 30 March 2006 00:53, Andrew Thompson wrote:> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:47:32AM -0800, Tuan Van wrote: > > Robin Atwood wrote: > > >I am new to xen and trying to get the primary domain working properly > > >before I create a new one. I am using the Gentoo unstable sources > > >(2.6.16-rc5) and xen 3.0.1 and the kernel boots Ok and eth0 is > > > activated. At this point the network is active and I can ping. Then I > > > shutdown net.eth0 and start xend. This restarts net.eth0 and does some > > > other stuff. Now every thing looks normal (ifconfig, netstat) but I > > > cannot ping anything. > > I am confused as to why you are shutting down eth0 before starting xend. Is > this something I missed in the manual?With xen 3.0.1 when I started xend it shutdown net.eth0 and then restarted it.> I use Gentoo and Xen3 and just added the init scripts from > /usr/portage/app-emulation/xen/files to my /etc/init.d folder and told > rc-update to start them on a normal boot.As a point of clarification, which device should I now specify in /etc/conf.d/net: eth0 or peth0? Cheers... -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain''t no Ten Commandments an'' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users