Re: [Xen-users] NIC not working inside guest

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Yvo van Doorn <yvo.vandoorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I am trying to kickstart a Xen guest (CentOS 5) and this has worked
> fantastically on one of two HP DL360G5s. Both run Xen 3.2.0 with
> CentOS 5. It works without an issue on one machine and I have 4 CentOS
> 5 Xen guests running without a hitch but I am having a heck of a
> problem doing the same exact thing on the 2nd host. Basically I try to
> kickstart CentOS5 and it will stop at the "Sending request for IP
> information for eth0..." and bring up a "Configure TCP/IP" text based
> dialog. It is just not able to download the kickstart file as its not
> making a network connection. What is even more frustrating is the
> inability to do Alt+F3 to see the verbose output (sticky keys or
> not... this is just not working when viewing the installation via xm
> console). So I am completely blind on the guest side. I see no DHCP
> request on the dhcp server (it is on the same subnet) and no request
> on the http server where the kickstart file is hsoted.
>

I would highly recommend looking into cobbler + koan [1] for this situation.

I have seen it work quite well.

Cheers,
Todd

[1] http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/

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