[Fedora-xen] eth0 not showing up in guest domains

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:58am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:53 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
> > As far as the xennet modules, I'm guessing I need to download the
> > kernel source, build the xennet module and copy it over. Will this work?
>
> The modules are in the actual package, but since you're booting with a
> kernel outside the filesystem, it doesn't work so well.  IMHO, the whole
> model of booting a kernel from outside of the guest filesystem is pretty
> broken as there's a fair bit of userspace which ends up depending pretty
> closely on the kernel these days.

Which is why I build a client kernel package that has everything but the 
kernel image itself in it (i.e. the modules).  This gets installed inside the 
guest environment, satisfying the RPM dependency for other packages.

Of course, this requires a little more work for the Gentoo clients, but the 
Red Hat and SUSE clients are perfectly happy.

Would it make sense to ship such a package for the guests?
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Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
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