Re: Enabling networking at domU (xen on arndale)

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>]

On 04/08/2013 09:57 AM, Sengul Thomas wrote:

> Hello,

Hello,

> I am trying to enable networking at domU in xen on arndale, and my
> first goal is to run network-backend at dom0.
> 
> While I was doing this, I noticed network-backend driver tries to find
> a device from xenbus, and xenbus reads device info from xenstore.
> However, xenstore does not contain virtual interface (vif) as backend
> device at the moment:
> 
>     root@localhost:~# xenstore-ls /local/domain/0/backend | grep -v "^ "
>     console = ""
>     vbd = ""
> 
> Now, I'm stuck and could you tell me how to add vif into xenstored
> (backend directory)?
> 


If you use xl to start you domU, you just need to add in your
configuration file something like:

vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]

Where xenbr0 is a bridge with eth0 inside. Then, xl will automatically
create the backend directory in xenstore.

Cheers,

Julien