Re: Unable to start a Xen3 DOMU

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

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:57:01PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I don't have a bridge= entry -- I relied on the text that says 
> 
>       You may have one created
>       with sensible defaults using an empty vif clause
> 
> which is what I have.  What should the line say?  I tried
> 
>       vif = [ '', 'bridge=bridge0' ]

This would create 2 entries; you should have
vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0']
> 
> 
>       Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not
> working.
> 
> (bridge0 was properly created at boot time, and 'brconfig -a' shows that
> it's there.)

If you want your domU connected to this bridge you have to specify it;
it won't do it automagically.

> 
> Where does /local/domain... come from?  It's being passed to the
> vif-bridge script.  It looks like a file name, but I don't have /local on
> my machine -- should I?  I don't see anything about it in the Cambridge
> install guide or at http://wiki.onetbsd.org/index.php/xen3-install:xen

It's the xenstore. See the xenstore-* commands so list entries and
get values.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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