After a long time of trying to get the network working between a linux dom0 and a windows xp domU, I found a hint in the README.SuSE (in the document folder /usr/share/doc/packages/xen of the SuSE rpm-package), that there are problems using bridged mode of xen together with networkmanager. Switching off the networkmanager indeed solved the problems. Are there any patches / workarounds to get both running? Thanks for any help Thilo _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Daniel P. Berrange
2007-May-18 11:31 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] bridged network and networkmanager?
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:48:34AM +0200, Thilo Riessner wrote:> After a long time of trying to get the network working between a linux dom0 > and a windows xp domU, I found a hint in the README.SuSE (in the document > folder /usr/share/doc/packages/xen of the SuSE rpm-package), that there are > problems using bridged mode of xen together with networkmanager. Switching > off the networkmanager indeed solved the problems. Are there any patches / > workarounds to get both running?With network manager the best way is to setup a bridge device which does *not* enslave the physical device. Guests will attach their VIFs to this bridge. Run dnsmasq on the bridge to service DHCP & DNS, and use IPTables to do MASQ to the real LAN. So guests can always talk to each other whether there is a connection or not. By using MASQ, then traffic will automatically be routed to LAN or WLAN according to what networkmanager has activated. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users