From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Ligesh <xen@lxlabs.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Re: Communicating with the Guest Os before the network comes up.
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:45:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BDD51D.4000208@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060719054509.GA13957@lxlabs.com>
> Yes, on linux you can pass arguments to the kernel commandline which
> can be read from the /proc/cmdline. But I needed a cross platform
> generic method by which to bootstrap the network of the guest OS, and
> currently it appears there isn't one. In fact, when it comes to Xen,
> my primary aim is to run Windows.
I still can't see what is wrong with the DHCP approach ...
* You can give every virtual machine a fixed MAC address.
* DHCP can be configured to hand out fixed IP address (based on the
machines MAC address).
* You can even invent some scheme to map mac addresses to ip addresses
(something like aa:bb:01:02:03:04 => 1.2.3.4), then you can easily
script-generate the dhcp config file entries.
That will "just work" with almost every OS on the planet ;)
cheers,
Gerd
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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-19 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-18 11:54 Communicating with the Guest Os before the network comes up Ligesh
2006-07-18 20:02 ` Jacob Gorm Hansen
2006-07-19 5:45 ` Ligesh
2006-07-19 6:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
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