Re: [1/3] [XEN] gnttab: Add new op unmap_and_replace

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:41:55AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Keir Fraser wrote:
> >On 6/6/07 08:54, "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>Yeah, I think the key point was that whatever interface you end up using
> >>>to configure the IP addr on should be eth0.
> >>That trick is only needed if xend creates the bridge setup instead of
> >>letting the distro network scripts do that.
> >
> >How would we do that in the distro-agnostic Xen tree?
> 
> Documentation and sample config files?
> 
> Sure, the down side is that "xend start" alone isn't enougth to make the 
> network fly.  But that doesn't work that well, anything more complex 
> than "single ethernet interface" isn't covered by the scripts anyway.

Even with a mere single ethernet interface, having 'xend start' mess with 
networking breaks anyone using iSCSI, AOE or NFS root/boot too.

Dan.
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