Re: [Xen-devel] Communicating with the Guest Os before the network comes up.

["Jacob Gorm Hansen" <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

On 7/18/06, Ligesh <xen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi folks,
>
>   I would like to know if it is possible to add a mechanism to send a simple 
> string into the Virtual Machine. For instance, in the case of Vmware, we can 
> define a variable called as machine.id in the config file, and this can be 
> accessed from inside the VM using the /etc/vmware/vmware-guestd on linux or 
> VmwareService.exe on Windows. The main purpose of this is to setup static ip 
> address for the Virtual Machine. What you do is:
There is no need for a special mechanism, In linux you can set the
static IP on the kernel command line, see this link for more info.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/NFS-Root.html#ss4.5

good luck,
Jacob

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