[Fedora-xen] no eth0 in guest

[Rainer Fuegenstein]

"modprobe xennet" solved the problem.

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FC5 with the current 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xen0 kernel in Dom0. I
> managed to set up several guests:
> 
> 1) image-file based FC5 installed via xenguest-install.py. this one has
> the eth0 device and a working network, but I don't want to use the image
> file, but LVM volumes (which seems not possible with xenguest-install.py)
> 
> 2) a centos 4.2 based on an image file I downloaded from a web site.
> this one has no eth0 device in the guest, therefore networking doesn't 
> work.
> 
> 3) FC4 using LVM volumes, installed via "yum -c
> http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/yum-xen.conf --installroot=/mnt -y
> groupinstall Base". this one also has no eth0 device in the guest.
> 
> 4) FC5 using LVM volumes, installed via "yum --installroot=/mnt/ -y
> groupinstall base". this one also has no eth0 device in the guest.
> 
> in the latter case, ifconfig in Dom0 looks like this:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:B5:F8:90
>           inet addr:192.168.5.10  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::201:2ff:feb5:f890/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:855425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:995199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:568177794 (541.8 MiB)  TX bytes:467490312 (445.8 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 MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:855428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
>           TX packets:995245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:568177957 (541.8 MiB)  TX bytes:468158849 (446.4 MiB)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe000
> 
> vif0.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:995199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:855427 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:467490312 (445.8 MiB)  TX bytes:568177962 (541.8 MiB)
> 
> vif6.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:2715 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> xenbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>           inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:359 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:41441 (40.4 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
> 
> domain config file:
> 
> name = "fc5"
> memory = "128"
> kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xenU"
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:4c:77:fa' ]
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg_data/lv_fc5_root,sda1,w',
> 'phy:/dev/vg_data/lv_fc5_data,sda2,w',
> 'phy:/dev/vg_data/lv_fc5_swap,sda3,w' ]
> root="/dev/sda1"
> extra = "ro selinux=0 3"
> 
> on startup, the FC5 domain doesn't complain about missing kernel modules
> etc. I also installed the kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.i686.rpm in the 
> guest, but that didn't help.
> 
> any idea what I have to do to get an eth0 in the guest ?
> 
> tnx in advance.
> 
> 
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