[Xen-users] Re: Communicating with VM before Network is configured.

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 How do we do the same on a windows VM? On a remote hosting setup, it is always 
preferable to assign static ips to the virtual machines. DHCP is cumbersome 
method to manage ip addresses.

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:47:03PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> 
> 
>   Perhaps this will help?
> 
>   1.  Copy a script to do the setup into your new images then 
>      boot up the new system with an extra command line argument
>      "init=/path/to/script".
> 
>       That can read kernel command line arguments to setup things,
>      etc.
> 
>   2.  At the end of your script run "reboot", or from a shell run
>      "xm reboot name"
> 
>   3.  Run "xm create ..." to boot up the image once it has been
>   configured.
> 
> 
>   Failing that why not just try DHCP ?
> 




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