Xen users - Dec 2005 - RE: Problem: IP-Config: Unable to set interface netmask(-22)

> Hi all,
> I tried to boot up a VM using two options (a) reading boot 
> information from a config file (b) adding boot information 
> directly to the command line. However, I got "IP-Config: 
> Unable to set interface netmask (-22)" problem when using 
> option (b). For (a), I don''t have such problem. The boot 
> information for both (a) and (b) is same.
> Could you please let me know what I am missing for (b) or is it a bug?
> BTW, my Xen version is 2.0-testing.
Use the "-n" option to xm create to get it to print out the sxp for
both
cases.

Best,
Ian
> (a)
> 
> $ cat vwconfig
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-xenU"
> memory = 256
> name = "ucvosg"
> disk = [ "file:/tmp/vosg/vosg-gk-rootfs.img,sda1,w" , 
> "file:/tmp/vosg/swap1.img,sda2,w" ]
> nics=2
> hostname="alex.cs.uchicago.edu"
> ip="128.135.164.83"
> netmask="255.255.255.192"
> gateway="128.135.164.65"
> 
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
> extra = ""
> 
> $ xm create vwconfig -c
> (snipped)
> xen_blk: Initialising virtual block device driver
> xen_net: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP 
> established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 
> bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> IP-Config: Complete:
>        device=eth0, addr=128.135.164.83, 
> mask=255.255.255.192, gw=128.135.164.65,
>       host=alex, domain=, nis-domain=cs.uchicago.edu,
>       bootserver=1.2.3.4, rootserver=1.2.3.4, rootpath> (snipped)
> 
> 
> (b)
> 
> $ xm create name=ucvosg memory=256
kernel=''/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-xenU''
> disk=''file:/tmp/vosg/vosg-gk-rootfs.img,sda1,w'' 
> disk=''file:/tmp/vosg/swap1.img,sda2,w'' nics=2 
> hostname=''alex.cs.uchicago.edu''
netmask=''255.255.254.192''
> ip=''128.135.164.83'' 
> gateway=''128.135.164.65'' root=''/dev/sda1
ro'' -f /dev/null
> 
> (snipped)
> xen_blk: Initialising virtual block device driver
> xen_net: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP 
> established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 
> bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> IP-Config: Unable to set interface netmask (-22).
> (snipped)
> 
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