[Fedora-xen] Fedora Core 8 + Xenbr0 + network bridging?

[John Summerfield]

Dustin Henning wrote:
> 	Fair enough; I certainly can't blame you for not wanting to read
> that big long thing. However, while I thank you for this useful piece of
:-)

> advice, the actual problem is that I don't know what files are causing my
> issue, but I am pretty sure they aren't files I modified by hand.  I think

to see what you really changed, rpm -V

Then you can use the other trick to get the original files, and hence 
their differences with, er, diff.


> maybe one of the GUI tools changed some file I am not familiar with (or F7
> did on account of a change I made in a file I am familiar with).  So  I am
> hoping someone could point me toward such a file.  I need to know what could
> cause my situation, which I believe is fully described starting at "11)".
> Everything prior to that is part of the cause and/or attempts to get rid of
> extra bridges.
> 	Dustin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of John Summerfield
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 04:08
> To: Fedora Xen
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Fedora Core 8 + Xenbr0 + network bridging?
> 
> Dustin Henning wrote:
>> 	Unfortunately, I took interest in this discussion and decided to
>> mess around with it (primarily to see if there really were noticeable
>> performance gains between xen's built-in bridge script and this manual
>> method) even though I don't currently have a test box.  I am running F7,
> and
>> prior to trying to do this, I had xenbr0 working fine (perhaps from
>> modifying xend-config.sxp, I don't remember exactly) alongside virbr0
> (which
>> I didn't want, but couldn't get rid of).  I thought undonig changes would
>> surely get me back to where I started, so I didn't bother with backups
>> (though, admittedly, backups really equate to undoing changes, so I don't
>> know what good additional copies of the files I might have backed up would
>> have done).  My experience went something like this:
> 
> I don't feel like reading the rest when I can point you at a backup:-)
> 
> cd <some sandpit>
> 
> rpm2cpio <whatever.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories
> 
> Find and copy the files you want.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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