Re: Setting up the network interface

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

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:58:54PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
> >I've been desperately trying to set up a network interface for my
> >domU. However, no matter what I try, my Linux domU never seems to see
> >any interface. I've been searching for detailed howtos but couldn't
> >find any. Is there a good step-by-step manual for this somewhere?
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html#linux-domU doesn't mention 
> anything about networking, so I'd expect this to work out of the box.
> Maybe give a bit more information...

Some linux distributions have the domU PV network driver as a module.
The module needs to be loaded in some way in this case (it was loaded
automatically on the scientific linux and fedora installations, but
I don't know what magic did it ...)

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