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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [1/3] [XEN] gnttab: Add new op unmap_and_replace
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:41:55 +0200
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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.

cheers,

   Gerd