Re: pcnet32 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization

["Jonathan M. McCune" <jonmccune@cmu.edu>]

I'm afraid I spoke too soon. 

vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0']
gives me an eth0 in the guest, but there is no corresponding vifX.0 in 
dom0.  Looking in /etc/xen/xmexample.hvm, I see the comment:

# type=ioemu specify the NIC is an ioemu device not netfront

I think vifX.0 is the backend, thus there is no reason for it to exist 
if the guest has no frontend.  However, what do I do instead?  I have 
been looking through documentation without luck.

Thanks!
-Jon



Jonathan M. McCune wrote:

> That did the trick.  Many thanks.
>
> -Jon
>
>
> Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
>
>> Please try replacing vif = [''] with
>>
>> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aravindh
>>
>>  
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-
>>> bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan M. McCune
>>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:42 PM
>>> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>>> Subject: [Xen-devel] pcnet32 device eth0 does not seem to be
>>> present,delaying initialization
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to bring up an HVM guest with networking support, but I
>>> cannot get the guest to recognize an ethernet interface.  The guest is
>>> rhel5, and I'm running Debian linux dom0 on top of xen-unstable-hvm
>>> changeset 8724.
>>>
>>> Running `/etc/init.d/networking restart` gives:
>>>
>>> Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
>>> Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
>>> Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
>>> Bringing up interface eth0:  pcnet32 device eth0 does not seem to be
>>> present, delaying initialization.
>>>                                                           [FAILED]
>>>
>>> I have tried several stock 2.4 redhat kernels, and I have built a
>>>   
>>
>> 2.6.12
>>  
>>
>>> kernel and taken care to include the pcnet32 driver.  The config file
>>> for the guest domain contains the line:
>>>
>>> vif = ['']
>>>
>>> `lspci` inside the guest does not show any ethernet interface.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what to do to enable networking.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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