Re: network setup mods to Xen HOWTO

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:18:41AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> I'd like to change the Xen 2.0 HOWTO on the NetBSD website to describe
> how to configure guest domains in a bridged-network configuration
> instead of a routed-network configuration.  There are several reasons
> for this:
> 
> (1) The existing instructions in the HOWTO are a bit confusing because
>     it constantly refers to scripts with "bridge" in there name and
>     parameters named "bridge", and yet it isn't setting up a
>     bridged-network configuration.
> 
> (2) The bridged-network configuration is simpler to understand and
>     set up for a novice because the guest domains are essentially
>     "peers" on the same network as domain0.
> 
> (3) This also avoids needing any special routing or NAT configuration
>     in domain0.
> 
> I've also made some minor changes by improving the documentation in
> the comments of the example domain configuration file, showing how to
> specify a file to be used for a file-backed domain, and by including
> the vif-bridge script from the latest PKGREVISION of the
> sysutils/xentools20 package.

Looks good. Thanks for doing this !

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