Re: [Xen-users] domU network doesn''t get IP

Anand
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:46:48 -0000

Make sure your firewall is disabled. Disable selinux.

Manual configuration of eth0 can be done as follows:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

ifconfig eth0 up

Now try to ping the interface.

Which version of xen are you using ?

On 1/3/06, Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Try to manually configure the eth0 inside domU and see if it helps.
> Sorry, I don''t know exactly how to do it. Could you elaborate on
how to
> manually configure eth0?
>
> Thanks for pointing out the custom mac address question.
>
> Can anyone tell me about these error messages from xend-hotplug.log
>
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path
backend/vbd/5/777/physical-device
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path backend/vif/5/0/ip
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path backend/vif/5/0/bridge
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path
backend/vbd/5/777/physical-device
> [After I shutdown the domain I further get]
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path backend/vif/5/0/ip
> xenstore-read: couldn''t read path backend/vif/5/0/bridge
> interface vif5.0 does not exist!
>
> I think "couldn''t read path backend/vif/5/0/ip "  should
really have to do
> with this IP problem. But I don''t understand which path is this?
Is it  a
> path somewhere on root file system?
> On 1/3/06, Anand <xen.mails@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I have started domU successfully. I am using the default
> > xend-config.sxp, it uses >(network-script network-bridge). But my
domU
> > doesn''t get any IP information, and it''s
>disconnected from dom0 and rest of
> > the world.
> >
> > Try to manually configure the eth0 inside domU and see if it helps.
> >
> > >(Also I don''t understand where the domU gets its MAC
address
> > 00:16:3E:56:79:71? Could >anyone explain that as well?)
> >
> > You can setup a custom mac address by using the option vif > >
[''mac=FF:FE:00:18:98:FB, bridge=xenbr0''] inside the domU
config file.
> > Substitute the mac address after the mac= for the desired mac address.
> >
> > --
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Anand
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jayesh
>
>


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regards,

Anand