Sounds like overkill to me. You say you're not familiar with Linux, though, so I can understand how this would be a frustrating experience. As I said in my reply to the original post in this thread, I generally configure the bridges in standard Linux networking config and don't leave it to XEN to do this configuration. This should work regardless of whether you have DHCP running or not - obviously without DHCP you'll need to set up more than just the IP address of that interface, you need to set a gateway address, DNS servers, etc. DHCP does all of this automatically, so that could be the source of the problem.
I've also never had a problem with updating either my domUs or my servers - I generally make sure the servers are done during install time and the same with the domUs - I do the SuSE updates at install time.
I was having similar problems... I did a total rebuild this way and all
is working...
I am using RHEL 5.1
When you build the XEN server DO NOT USE DHCP, assign a manual IP
address and this will give you ability to use XEBR0.
When building your paraviritual server, when asked for the first DHCP
use the DHCP, this will allow you to use an HTTP or FTP for locate the
stage2.img. I went round and round with Red Hat support and the
difference was the first DHCP, I was using manually assigned IP but tech
was using DHCP. I switched and was able to locate the stage2.img and
move on.
Doing the two steps above will allow you to access the Xebr0 and pass
the internet to your PV servers.
I am new to LINUX let alone Xen, but the steps above is working for me.
On a side note, DO NOT update , Xen or PV servers built, until you are
done. I did an update right after building the Xen server and LOST
Xebr0. So, build everything first then update them.
Still learning here so maybe someone else can offer you some better
advice. Just letting you know what worked for me.
Tony
Anthony Marquez
Systems Administrator
Information Technology & Communications
New Mexico Department of Agriculture
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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of trist007
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Subject: [Xen-users] I finally got a virtual os up, now a few
questions...
I wasn't able to get a paravirtual os up. For some reason, during the
install, after the message no ipv6 routers available, I would get
prompted
for stage2.img file. It would ask for an ftp server and the path. I
tried
several of the mirrors that fedora project listed and would still get
the
same problem. So I finally decided to make a virtual os so that I could
install fedora 8 from my dvd.
Anyhow, I have a system up and running, however lftp and firefox can't
connect to the internet. I route -n and everything came up normally, i
restarted the /etc/init.d/network restart and it restarted fine, but I
just
don't seem to get any connectivity on firefox and lftp. What do I need
to
do?
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