[CentOS-virt] peth0 unavailable for virt-manager virt-install

Wed Apr 28 21:15:16 UTC 2010
Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com>

Command just times our for me

virt-install --paravirt --vcpus=4 --name server1 --ram  4096 --file
/opt/xen-images/hlcnwmmp01.img -x
"ks=http://10.203.1.11/kickstart/ks-xen.cfg" --file-size 40 --location
http://128.61.111.11/pub/centos/5.4/os/x86_64 -b peth0

Starting install...
Retrieving file vmlinuz...                               | 1.9 MB     00:00
Retrieving file initrd.img...                            | 7.1 MB     00:01
POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Device 0 (vi
f) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.')
Domain installation may not have been
 successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain
 by running 'virsh start server1'; otherwise, please
 restart your installation.

virt-mamanger doesn't display any options for physical interface

xen-3.0.3-94.el5
libvirt-0.6.3-20.1.el5_4
virt-manager-0.6.1-8.el5
xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5
kernel
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen

peth0 is there:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:9B:9B:A7:56
          inet addr:10.202.3.66  Bcast:10.202.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::221:9bff:fe9b:a756/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3452114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1924908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4900895721 (4.5 GiB)  TX bytes:227380539 (216.8 MiB)

peth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4415207 errors:0 dropped:6356 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2505255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6274073430 (5.8 GiB)  TX bytes:277402952 (264.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:24 Memory:d6000000-d6012800