Re: IP and hostname for domU

["Andrew D. Ball" <aball@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

I strongly dislike the {ip, dhcp, root*} options.  They map to Linux
kernel options.  If someone wants to do that in the configuration
instead of a bootloader configuration, I think the should use the
ill-named 'extra' option, which is appended to the kernel command line.
This is for paravirtualized linux domU's.

Would be best if ip configuration is done in userspace of the guest
unless someone would ordinarily do this with kernel options and doesn't
want to use a bootloader.

Sorry, I'm a bit sore on this :-)

Peace.
Andrew

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:48 -0800, jdsw wrote:
>         Forwarding to devel list. 
>         (changed the wordings bit)
>         
>         The xmexample1 seems to contain 
>         
>         hostname= "vm%d" % vmid
>         
>         Does this work with HVM ? I tried setting hostname=foo for my
>         HVM based FC5 Linux domU. It does not seem to work. 
>         
>         Also, is there a way to set IP address for a Linux HVM DomU ?
>         I have seen somewhere (not in xen example)
>           vif = [ 'ip=192.168.1.12' ]
>         
>         How do both these work ? (if they are supposed to work )
>         Are some scripts run after DomU is instantiated ? OR are
>         passed as kernel params ?
>         
>         Thanks
>         /Jd
>         ps. anyone using these params, can u please send me output of 
>            cat /proc/cmdline 
>         from DomU
>         
>         
>         
>         
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