[Fedora-xen] eth0 not showing up in guest domains
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Feb 22 17:43:18 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:03 -0700, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> 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.
Why not install the actual kernel package in the guest environment and
then use pygrub?
Jeremy
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