[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug or weird ``feature''?
Matthew Palmer
mpalmer at debian.org
Fri Jun 8 00:09:18 UTC 2007
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:13:31PM +0200, Romain Tartiere wrote:
> I spoke about that with a friend who had already used Xen under Debian
> and he told me I had to change /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp to use the
> bridge network script.
>
> > --- xend-config.sxp.orig 2007-06-07 18:35:41.000000000 +0200
> > +++ xend-config.sxp 2007-03-30 18:39:53.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@
> > # two fake interfaces per guest domain. To do things like this, write
> > # yourself a wrapper script, and call network-bridge from it, as appropriate.
> > #
> > -(network-script network-dummy)
> > +(network-script network-bridge)
> >
> > # The script used to control virtual interfaces. This can be overridden on a
> > # per-vif basis when creating a domain or a configuring a new vif. The
[snip]
> This experience report is to ask a question: is this ``network-dummy''
> something desired or just a bug in the configuration file shipped with
> the Debian package?
It counts as a weird feature. At first, I thought it was just a "no damage
by default" setting, but I recently read somewhere (sorry, completely
forgotten where) that the idea behind network-dummy is that, since Debian
has the ability to configure all your bridges at boot time, that you should
be using that instead of the Xen network config scripts.
- Matt
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