Otdfbt

Hi everyone,

I switch my server from a xend/xm Xen install to a 4.1 xl Xen install.

Therefore Xen does not create vif network interface when I launch xl create /etc/xen/my_server.cfg but does create vif network interface with the command xm create /etc/xen/my_server.cfg

Here are sample configuration:

nano /etc/xen/xl.conf
vifscript="vif-bridge"

nano /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)

nano /etc/default/xen
TOOLSTACK=xl

Any idea ? I'm lost :-(

Best Regards.

[EDIT] I do not undertand but after several changes it is working now,
here we go:

nano /etc/xen/xl.conf # Use the whole path not just vifscript="vif-bridge" I think the problem was there...

vifscript="/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge"

Network on the HOST:

# The primary network interface
auto xenbr0
allow-hotplug xenbr0
iface xenbr0 inet dhcp
bridge_maxwait 5
bridge_ports eth0


# The secondary network interface
auto xenbr1
allow-hotplug xenbr1
iface xenbr1 inet dhcp
bridge_maxwait 5
bridge_ports eth1

nano /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp # No network script sets...

(dom0-min-mem 196)
(enable-dom0-ballooning yes)
(total_available_memory 0)
(dom0-cpus 0)
(vncpasswd '')

Network VM interface with IP failover XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > IP FO YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY > IP HOST

#The primary network interface

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static 
address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
netmask 255.255.255.255

post-up route add YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY/32 dev eth0
post-up route add default gw YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY

VIF HOST Created by XL vif8.0

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:1336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:81534 (79.6 KiB) TX bytes:1268787 (1.2 MiB)

nano /etc/xen/my_server.cfg

vif = [ 'ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ,mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX,bridge=xenbr0']

And its' OK ! Regards !

If you DownVote what ever the reason please give some advice and do not downvote without any explication that's not fair !!

[EDIT2] If you were using XM be Aware that with XL you have to set vifscript="/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge" into /etc/xen/xl.conf
because symlink vifscript="vif-bridge" only works with XM !!!

Be Aware that if you were using XM that with XL you have to set full path for network script, if not script isn't executed:

So for XL use you have to set :
vifscript="/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge" (or another script)

into /etc/xen/xl.conf

because symlink vifscript="vif-bridge" only works with XM (on my Debian Xen install)!