Is there better documentation for Xen networking than what''s in the manual at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html ? I''m having some difficulty finding any reference material that doesn''t ultimately end up with "use the Xen scripts to do all the magic". The scripts unfortuantely raise more questions for me than they answer. I''ve got a machine with two interfaces (eth0 and eth1). Each interface connects to a different router, both of which provide a common gateway via HSRP. The two interfaces on the server are bonded together (bond0). The interfaces are trunk ports. I want to bond both interfaces using mode=active-backup, then create vlans off the bond, then bridge the bond.vlan interfaces to the guests that should be part of a particular vlan. I''ve been playing around with this by hand using "network-dummy" and creating everything by hand. I''m at the point where I have bonded interfaces bridged and talking to guests, but I''m stuck now trying to get vlans off the bonded interface working. Anyway, has anybody already done this (or something similar)? Is there better documentation for how everything gets created? Are there examples some place that aren''t the scripts in /etc/xen/scripts? Thanks. -Chris _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''m having some difficulty finding any reference material that doesn''t > ultimately end up with "use the Xen scripts to do all the magic". The > scripts unfortuantely raise more questions for me than they answer. > > Anyway, has anybody already done this (or something similar)? Is there > better documentation for how everything gets created? Are there examples > some place that aren''t the scripts in /etc/xen/scripts?I have set up a very similar configuration. The problem with using hand-made scripts is when Xen updates, the scripts may break. It may be a good time to get what we have made and submit it back to Xen so hopefully a config such as this will be maintained as part of the source, as I am sure others would also make use of this and aid its refinement. SM _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Stuart Mackintosh wrote:>> I''m having some difficulty finding any reference material that doesn''t >> ultimately end up with "use the Xen scripts to do all the magic". The >> scripts unfortuantely raise more questions for me than they answer. >> >> Anyway, has anybody already done this (or something similar)? Is there >> better documentation for how everything gets created? Are there >> examples some place that aren''t the scripts in /etc/xen/scripts? > > I have set up a very similar configuration. The problem with using > hand-made scripts is when Xen updates, the scripts may break. It may be > a good time to get what we have made and submit it back to Xen so > hopefully a config such as this will be maintained as part of the > source, as I am sure others would also make use of this and aid its > refinement.Would you mind posting your scripts to the list? I''m still doing everything by hand at this point. Ultimately, I''d like to get to the point where I''m using the Debian infrastructure (/etc/network/interfaces and ifup/ifdown) to handle setting up all of my dom0 interfaces (bonding, vlans, and bridges), leaving Xen responsible for adding guests to the right bridges and that''s it. Once I''ve got a finalized and functional configuration, I''m more than happy to write it up and submit things back. -Chris _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users