Re: Problem with auto-starting DomU on NetBSD5.0.2 running Xen3.3

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

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:12:54PM -0700, Kalpesh Zinjuwadia wrote:
> I added the required commands in vif-bridge; however, I don't see the output 
> anywhere (checked xenbackendd.log, xend.log, xend-debug.log, console). Don't 
> know where it got logged. Then I added it to xendomains script right under 
> xendomains_start() and saw output during bootup. I DIDN'T see bridge1 in 
> ifconfig -a. ifconfig bridge1 failed too with device not configured error msg.

So bridge1 was not created on boot. Does 'ifconfig -a' show it after boot ?

> 
> BTW, in my xend-config.sxp, I have default config for network-script and 
> vif-script. The comment says that by default the bridge name is xenbr0.

that's from the linux world. there's no default for NetBSD, a bridge
has to be created and named explicitely.

> However, I'm using bridge1 in vif param in domU config file. I added 
> bridge=bridge1 in the network-script below and xenbackendd core dumped :(

I don't understand what could cause this.

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