Re: [Xen-users] vifname?

[Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:00:34AM -0200, Fernando Maior wrote:
> I would ask you to analyse what you want. If you are going to use everything
> from within the domU, use eth0 and ethX inside it. They will not change. In
> fact, you only need to know about the vifname if you are going to use it in
> dom0, which is not needed in Xen3 because of the vif start scripts.

I need to use it in dom0 to measure bandwidth used by each domU.  I
can't measure anything inside a domU because that can be meddled
with.  I am used to doing this with xen 2.0.x and have
infrastructure built around the ability to do this. :(

> Take a look at /etc/xen/scripts/vif-*, they will correctly start up you vif 
> and
> bind it to the bridge you want, and turn up the vif. Good job there :)

Is it possible to edit the scripts to name the vif based on the
domain's name rather than its id number (which changes)?

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