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...e) . Then it create a bridge with the name eth0. Thus eth0 is magicallly changed from an oridinary network device to a bridge. This idea is shamelessly stolen from the /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/start-uml . (I used the names eth0 / eth0slv . This might have been a mistake. The start-uml script used eth0 / hweth0 . ) Doing things this way means that your firewall and routing settings work both before and after the script is run. The network devices continue to get configured with the info in /etc/sysconfig/network/ as usual. To use it, you need to edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp . Set the variable network-...