[Fedora-xen] Debian VM progress

[Brian Lavender]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:48:41PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> It turns out I was able to get my Debian VM to boot. My Dom0 is actually
> a Centos 5. What I did is I created a Debian install using QEMU, then I
> placed the Centos kernel into Debian. I created an initrd for the Debian
> using the Centos kernel. I also told the kernel that the console was
> xvc0. I added xvc0 to the /etc/inittab and securetty. 
> 
> The system boots, things start, and I get a login for the console.
> But.... I don't see an eth0. The only indication I see of an eth0 is
> the following.
> 
> netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path.
> 
> But, I don't see any evidence when I type ifconfig. So, what do I need
> to do to get this eth0 going?

I discovered my server supports full virtualization. It just wasn't
turned on in the BIOS. So, I went that way.

brian
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