[xenpreview-dev] DHCP issues in Xen Yast Installation

[Rian Hunter]

Hi,

Thanks for the info! If I was manually installing my own virtual machine
this would work but unfortunately, I am using the SUSE Xen Installation
tool so I really can't change the config file early on enough. Is this
tool still broken in SUSE 10.1, or maybe my network setup isn't
compatible (I doubt that though, I just have an ethernet card on eth0
using DHCP in a private network). Maybe I will try a manual install.

Rian

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:41 -0700, Emani, Ashok wrote:
> Removing the mac address from the "vif" line in the config file helped
> me workaround this problem...
> 
> Replace "vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:00:00:11, bridge=xenbr0' ]"
> with "vif = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0' ]"
> 
> If the above doesn't work please make sure XEN dom0 has virtual network
> working by looking into "ifconfig". It should atleast have xenbr0 and
> vif<domid>.0 (along with eth0, peth0 etc) listed; 
> I noticed that if your Ethernet interface on Dom0 is not eth0 (no eth0
> in ifconfig output) instead something else like eth2 or eth3 - network
> is not working in VMX domains(dhcp doesn't work etc).
> 
> If everything is good, please try static IP addresses instead of DHCP.
> 
> U probably already referred this
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/#SECTION0322
> 0000000000000000
> 
> Ashok
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> Hunter
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> Subject: [xenpreview-dev] DHCP issues in Xen Yast Installation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using SUSE 10.1. When I use Yast to install a new Xen image and the
> OS installation starts, it fails because it cannot obtain an IP address
> (using dhcp). I do have a DHCP server here, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Rian
> 
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