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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 2.0 on VMware workstation.

Le lundi 09 janvier 2006 à 10:11 +0100, Moritz Bunkus a écrit :
> Hey,
> 
> On Monday 09 January 2006 09:09, Siju George wrote:
> 
> >   Has anybody tried Xen on VMware workstation ? Is there any reason
> > this combination will not work ?
> 
> I've tried to get this working last week with VMWare Workstation
> 5.0.0. It does, somewhat... Unfortunately the dom0's networking breaks
> down (meaning the dom0 doesn't respond to any packet, not even to ARP
> requests, but tcpdump on the dom0 still shows that packets are received,
> just not answered) as soon as I start xend, and I don't have a clue
> why. I've copied the installation over to a "normal" PC and there the
> problem doesn't exist.
> 

You have tweak your vmware configuration to put the wmware virtual
network  adapter in promiscuous mode.

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/network_promiscuous_ws.html

> >   I tried this on Fedora 3. I could install xen on VMware workstation
> > running Linux Guest (Fedora 3). But Dom0 resets while booting
> > half-way. Has anybody got this working ?
> 
> I'm on Debian Sarge here with Xen 3.0 and the 2.6.12 dom0 kernel. As I
> said, booting works, starting a domU works, but networking doesn't.
> 
> Mosu
> 
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Olivier


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