Re: [Xen-users] network-route and vif-route setup help

[Ravikesh Chandra <rcha108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi William,

I'm running public static routed network config on CentOS 5.3 largely 'out-of-the-box'. The problem was understanding how it all fit together as I'm no network engineer. What it came down to was this: comment the bridge stuff in xend-config.sxp, uncomment the route scripts.

In your VM config use vif=["ip=123.123.123.123"]

From within your DomU, set your IPADDR,.. under a routed config I've figured(?) the NETMASK and GATEWAY aren't really relevant but they must be legal.. so for instance if I have IP= 123.123.123.123, I set netmask 255.255.255.0 and GW to 123.123.123.1. That way from within the DomU when you run "route -n" you'll see:
0.0.0.0         123.123.123.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

And in your Dom0, "route -n" will reveal:
123.123.123.123  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 vifXXX.0

I've since changed to using libvirt, so I no longer use the Xen VM config files, but everything works the same way.

HTH

2009/10/6 Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>

William,
   I'm exhausted and need sleep but before I really put some effort into helping you let me just mention that unless you've recompiled your CentOS kernel than setting your DomU ip address in the DomU config file (vif=) won't work.  CONFIG_IP_PNP needs to be compiled in the kernel.

However, you're setting the IP inside the DomU manually so it should still be working. Now I'm going to sleep. I hope someone else has more insight. If not when I wake up I'll tackle it. :-)

Cheers!
Grant McWilliams

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Now they have two problems.



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