On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Ted Brenner wrote:
> Thanks for the help Pasi. So why use Debian network scripts in lieu of
> Xen scripts when the Debian wiki doesn't suggest it?
>
It has been a 'best practive' to use distro provided network scripts
for years already..
Upcoming Xen 4.1 with the new default xl/libxl toolstack actually
as a default requires you to set up the networking using the distro scripts!
> I removed 'bridge=eth0' from the network-script line but I'm still having
> trouble with the xen daemon. When I boot up it isn't running and when I
> shutdown it still hangs apparently because it's getting no response from
> eth0. Do I have to do something to make my change to xend-config.sxp
> permanent?
>
> When I try and start up xend I see this error:
>
> # xend start
> ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
> RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge: line 240: sigerr: command not found
>
You have to remove the whole "network-script" line !
-- Pasi
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]
pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:14:06PM -0600, Ted Brenner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup Xen 4.0 on Debian Squeeze. I've been following
> this
> > wiki for the most part. [1][2]http://wiki.debian.org/Xen. When I
> first went
> > through the process, after rebooting I just got a blank black
> screen with
> > no grub. So after reinstalling my OS I've been rebooting after
> every step
> > and everything works fine (not sure why I got the grub error the
> first
> > time). But after uncommenting the network-script part of
> xen-config.sxp
> > file and adding 'network-bridge antispoof=yes', things start to act
> up.
> > The first thing I noticed was that shutdowing down the dom0 now
> hangs,
> > usually at the point of stopping the xend daemon. So I tried
> adding
> > 'bridge=eth0'. Nothing really change but I still installed a domU,
> Ubuntu
> > Maverick. However, I couldn't connect as I was getting errors like
> this:
> >
> > Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not
> working.
> >
> > Checking the hotplug log it said this
> > can't add vif1.0 to bridge eth0: Operation not supported
> >
>
> Sounds like 'eth0' is not a bridge. So probably wrong bridge= parameter
> used for that vm.
>
> eth0 is my dom0 network interface so the problem is that it is already in
> use correct?
>
>
> > So I'm wondering how I should be setting up the network-scripts.
> Every
> > instruction I read mentions it but they all seem to have slightly
> > different variants. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm
> running on
> > amd64 platform.
> >
>
> I'd recommend to disable xen network-script in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
> and set up the required bridges using debian network scripts.
>
>
>
> -- Pasi
>
> --
> Ted Brenner
>
>
> Visible links
> 1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 2. http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
