[Fedora-xen] FC5/Xen -> Running other OS as Guest within FC5

Todd Deshane deshantm at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 13:54:10 UTC 2006


did you try: modprobe xennet

On 4/17/06, Srinivasan S <ssrini at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have FC5 installed with Xen 3.x from the official xensource.comtarball.  The dom0 boots perfectly.  I have a multiboot system with FC5
> installed on /dev/sda6, OpenSUSE installed on /dev/hdc3 and Ubuntu on
> /dev/hdc1.
>
> Goal: I am trying to get Ubuntu and Suse to run within my FC5/Xen box. (I
> had this working earlier in FC4 and Xen 2.x without issues)
>
> The configuration file I use is : /etc/xen/suseguest (contents)
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-xen"
> memory = 100
> name = "suseguest"
> vif= ['mac=aa:00:10:00:00:10, bridge=xenbr0, ip=192.168.2.2']
> gateway = "192.168.1.1"
> netmask = "255.255.255.0"
> disk = ['file:/dev/hdc3,hdc3,w']
> root = "/dev/hdc3 rw"
>
> (As a variation to the above I also tried vif=[''] etc with no avail)
>
> On running /usr/sbin/xm create -c /etc/xen/suseguest I get a number of
> errors
> on module load that modules.dep file is not found etc .. However the boot
> process continues uninterrupted and Iam finally provided the terminal
> login
> prompt.  Iam also able to successfully login.
>
> After logging in, however an ifconfig reveals that the virtual if
> 192.168.2.2 is not setup .. only loopback is enabled (127.x.x.x) ..
>
> I tried ubuntuguest (same config as above, disk is /dev/hdc1) but with the
> same
> result.
>
> (To remove the modules.dep problem, I also copied the files from my FC5
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-xen/ folder to Suse and tried, no errors but networking
> still does not work)
>
> The dom0 ifconfig reveals that the bridge and peth0 etc are all setup
> properly.
> All help to get this "networking issue" resolved is appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Srini
>
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