Re: First Experience with Xen3 on amd64 (Thanks, Bouyer!)

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

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:18:55PM -0200, Marco Poli wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> 
> I must confess I have been waiting for the release of the amd64 port for 
> asome months now... to be precise since I bought this Xeon 5120 in this 
> PowerEdge 1900 server, around june I guess.
> 
> Since the release I have built up a testing environment using -daily 
> from 20071215 (kernel 4.99.42). And the latest  xenkernel3 and xentools3 
> packages. I did make my own kernel with VT100, Veriexec and CGD support, 
> based on the config of the XEN3_DOM0 kernel.
> 
> For this test I have:
> 
> kern.securelevel=-1
> kern.veriexec.setric=0
> 
> 
> So far so good. The problem appears when trying to bring the first DomU 
> up, with the following config file:
> 
> kernel = "/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU.gz"
> memory = 128
> name = "machine"
> vif = [ '' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/mnt/virtual/netbsd-common.img,hda1,w' ]
> 
> 
> When bringing up xend, in the logs I have:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.

If you don't want network interface, I think you just have to delete the
vif = ['']
line. Otherwise it create a vif with some defaut values that are not
right for NetBSD.
If you want a vif, you need to add a bridge= parameter pointing to an
existing bridge interface.

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