Xen users - Apr 2008 - RE: Newbie question - unable to start guest OS on Fedora 8 <solved>

OK, I managed to get past this problem. There were two issues - I did not have
peth0 configured correctly (as you can see, the ifconfig output does not show a
peth0). That was resolved by fixing my settings in the network manager. The
second issue was that I don''t have a static IP address, so I selected
the option for DHCP on wireless during the guest host setup. I switched to
static IP with wired connection, and things seem to move along now.

Thanks,
Vishal.
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> From: vishalmoondhra@hotmail.com
> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Newbie question - unable to start guest OS on Fedora 8
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:02:50 -0700
> 
> 
> Hi - 
> I am new to Fedora and Xen. I am trying to set up 3 guest OSes on a Fedora
8+Xen install. I followed the documentation and things were fine until I tried
to set up a guest. After putting in all the parameters (disk image file path,
256 MB of RAM, HDD etc), I used the following pointer for OS location:
> 
> http://archive.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/
> 
> The first stage of download seemed to go fine, and then the installation
gets stuck trying to retrieve the second stage. Here is the output of my
ifconfig:
> 
> ------------------
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:D3:B2:55:D0  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::213:d3ff:feb2:55d0/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:7958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:5330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:10566105 (10.0 MiB)  TX bytes:575747 (562.2 KiB)
>           Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000 
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:2920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:2920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:2453097 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2453097 (2.3 MiB)
> 
> vif1.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:141 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:32 
>           RX bytes:3028 (2.9 KiB)  TX bytes:8404 (8.2 KiB)
> 
> virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  
>           inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:2176 (2.1 KiB)  TX bytes:7163 (6.9 KiB)
> ------------------------
> 
> I have two ethernet cards on the machine (although I need to use only one).
I have a realtek 10/100 (the eth0) and an Atheros 5005 PCI wireless card (which
I have disabled)
> 
> I tried to look on the internet, but most discussions of this sort of
problem usually end with "this looks like a network configuration
issue..."
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> Vishal..
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