Re: After switching from "xm" to "xl" toolstack, can't get Guest networking to work.

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>]

erin.balid@inoutbox.com wrote:
> Hi Jim.
>
> Thanks for chiming in.
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 04:13 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   
>>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-features/2011-03/msg00212.html
>>>       
>> A mailing list to discuss openSUSE features, not an authoritative
>> resource on functionality in any given openSUSE release...
>>     
>
> It's been a big challenge finding anything that IS "an authoritative
> resource on functionality" for Xen in Opensuse.
>
> Where is the Opensuse-specific and Up-to-Date Xen documentation?  I
> guess we cant rely on xen.org docs for Opensuse's Xen?  Is it not really
> closely tied to the xen-devel project then?
>   

Generally speaking, xen.org documentation applies to the xen packages in
openSUSE.  In the case of toolstacks, openSUSE still enables the legacy
toolstack by default, and all upstream documentation wrt the legacy
toolstack applies.  You can use the new toolstack as well, in which case
the upstream xl/libxl documentation applies - including recommendation
that the toolstacks should not be used in parallel.

What you have described in this thread is a bug in openSUSE12.1.  You
followed the documentation and it didn't work :-).

> That leaves me back at my earlier question -- What are good docs for Xen
> on Opensuse?  I've wasted a lot of time - mine and other people's -
> doing what I was told (RTFM!) just to find out that 'real' Xen manual is
> the wrong one.
>   

I'm not sure what the problem is with the manual.  You've hit a bug I
introduced in openSUSE.

Regards,
Jim