Re: [Xen-users] No DomU network after switching from xm to xl

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:50 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I tried to switch the XEN toolstack from xm to xl, but discovered that my 
> DomU was without network access.
> 
> Versions and configurations:
> 
> Dom0 and DomU kernel: self-compiled 3.3.6
> Dom0 and DomU distribution: Debian testing
> XEN version: 4.1.2
> 
> /etc/network/interfaces in Dom0 contains two bridge configurations: 
> xenbr0 with the physical interface eth0 and xenbr1 with eth1.
> 
> The network configuration of the DomU has the line:
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:11, bridge=xenbr0', 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:12, 
> bridge=xenbr1' ]

Can you try dropping the " " before the bridge= in both places. At one
point there was a bug which meant the whitespace was significant (so in
this case the key would be " bridge" instead of "bridge" -- and thinking
about it now I'm not convinced it was ever fixed...

Ian.

> /etc/xen/xl.conf contains the line:
> vifscript="vif-bridge"
> 
> DomU boots without problems, but doesnât have network access. âbrctl 
> showâ shows that the vif interfaces of DomU are not attached to the 
> bridge. I donât see anything in the logs that the vif-bridge script is 
> called, but I donât see error messages as well.
> 
> Switching back to xm solves the problem for now.
> 
> Any hints to solve this problem are welcome.
> 
> Shade and sweet water!
> 
>       Stephan
> 



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