Re: [Xen-users] error message while starting xen

shankha
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:11:26 -0000

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I switched to Suse after trying with
Fedora and installed it with the help of yast.

thanks
shankha

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha<fajar@fajar.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, shankha<shankhabanerjee@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have fedora 11 and i am trying to run xen 3.4. I build it from
>> source using gcc 4.3. I faced a lot of error messages while booting
>> and have been able to fix them by making changes to the xen
>> configuration file. Is  there a fundamental problem with my
>> installation. Is xen expected to run smoothly on fedora 11. But i am
>> not able to fix the following error.
>
> I know that you can run Xen 3.4.1 smoothly on RHEL/Centos5, with
> minimal effort. Use 3.4.1 repo from http://www.gitco.de/repo/
> Haven''t tried F11 though.
>
>>
>>
>> Starting xend daemon: Waiting for pth0 to negotiate
>> link..............(link isn''t in running state)
>>
>> determining IP information for etho... dhclient(3314) is already
>> running - exiting
>
>> Can you people give some pointers as to what is going wrong.
>
> My guess is this is related to xen''s default bridge networking
setup,
> which does some interface renaming which (possibly) got dhcp confused.
> You can try setting up bridge manually using
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* and disable xen''s network
> script on /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp.
>
> --
> Fajar
>