[Pkg-xen-devel] unblock: xcp-xapi - urgent documentation fixes

[Daniel Pocock]

On 18/03/13 07:02, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 04:23 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> The current README.Debian is quite old
>>
>> It gives some advice that will lead to people having a broken system
>> (e.g. no networking).  It describes a procedure for configuring
>> networking that is completely opposite to what has been described more
>> recently on the upstream mailing list
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702337
>>
>> I'm happy to overhaul this document and submit a debdiff for the release
>> team to review - please confirm if this work should go ahead.  No other
>> files in the package will be changed.
> 
> Hi Daniel and the release team,
> 
> First, thanks Daniel, for taking care of this. I do appreciate such
> contributions.
> 
> I agree the README is not perfect, though I don't agree it is such a
> disaster. The network configuration which I described in it does work,
> contrary to what Daniel says. Others also reported using this howto
> successfully. What's annoying though, is that to do it, you have to
> reboot under a broken networking setup for a while, to be able to do
> such a configuration, which is very annoying if you don't have a KVM
> over IP in your server.
> 
> I have applied all of your git patches. Thanks for them. However, I
> cannot apply the part that changes paragraph 4.2, as it did work for me,
> and that I would not recommend removing all trace of the network
> interface (you would loose network if you reboot without XCP).

The email on the list says that you must do exactly what I described,
empty the /etc/network/interfaces file

This works for me - I have done multiple reboots to test

I also tried re-running the pif-reconfigure-ip a couple of times with
the empty interfaces file, it definitely expects to work that way.

It may be that it works differently for Linux bridge users, I use the
Open vSwitch bridge.

If I do not follow those exact steps, then the dom0 IP networking works,
but XCP fails to add any domU to the xenbr0 bridge and they have to be
bridged using manual brctl commands.


> I by the way believe that your paragraph "IMPORTANT BUG" is important to
> add. Mike told me Citrix guys would come back to me with a fix for
> #695221 (though it's been weeks I didn't hear about him yet).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas