[CentOS-virt] fully virt Xen DomU network question

[Miguel Sanchez]

Coert Waagmeester escribió:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 09:05 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 20:53 +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>     
>>> Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
>>>       
>>>> ----- "Coert Waagmeester" <lgroups at waagmeester.co.za> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> But I am definitely keeping a lookout for when xenpv comes out for
>>>>> CentOS
>>>>>           
>>>> You need the Windows side:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes, but b aware that you need to dowload/use an *older* version of the 
>>> xenpv drivers for windows hosted there : newer releases only support 
>>> newer Xen ...
>>>
>>>       
>> I have installed gplpv_fre_wnet_x86_0.10.0.69.msi on Xen 3.1
>>
>> It works perfectly so far!
>>
>>
>>     
You are in luck. With that configuration I got BSOD when I booted Windows.
I had to install Xen 3.3 available at http://www.gitco.de/repo/.
>
> Another question: in my windows DomU the old realtek RTL8139 emulated
> network card driver still shows, and the Intel 82371SB Bus master IDE
> controller. 
> They all have a "Device can not start" error. I have uninstalled them in
> Device manager, but when I reboot they show up again, and event viewer
> also has a few entries on the network cards not wanting to come up.
>   
xenpv hides ide and scsi controller detected by Windows, to avoid 
problems with double access by two drivers to the same disk.
The drawback is that the configured cdrom is not accessible. I think 
this will solved with Xen 3.4 and qemu capabilities to hide devices ??
> on the wiki ( http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv ) they
> want you to remove the vif entry. But I need two virtual networks to the
> DomU.
>
> I have removed the ioemu part, but no difference.
>   
Configure each interface vif:
vif = [ "type=netfront,mac=XXXXXXXX,bridge=XXX", ]
> Regards,
> Coert
>
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