[Fedora-xen] eth0 not coming up in domU

[Ryan Hofschneider]

On April 11, 2006 at 15:01:44 -0700 dmorgan at gmi-mr com wrote:

> Kernel is 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.xenU
>
> I've found that the problem was caused because the 2.4 based guest  
> OS (White
> Box Linux) didn't support modprobe.conf so didn't load the
>
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
>
> Module. I've recompiled the kernel so that this module is built in  
> and it
> resolved the issue.

Is there any reason why this module isn't built into the kernel by  
default, so folks setting up 2.4-based guest operating systems (e.g,  
RHEL3) can avoid building a custom kernel? Is there an easier way  
that I have overlooked?

Thanks,
Ryan