Re: xen virtual network(solved)
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to create both frontend and backend
networks in xen. By that I mean a publicly available network for
internet access and a virtual network for communication between guests
only that has no internet or other network access.
Here's what I've done in attempting to add the second virtual network.
1. Created dummy0 interface in /etc/network/interfaces in Dom0.
2. In /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp pointed (network-bridge) to the script
below.
3. Created a script in /etc/xen/scripts to start up both xenbr0 and
xenbr1. xenbr0 is the default bridge and xenbr1 is created on dummy0.
The script is from an example in Running Xen on how to create multiple
bridges.
4. Added the mac and xenbr info for xenbr1 to the "vif = (blah, blah,
blah)" line in the domain.cfg file in /etc/xen.
This results in losing all network connectivity to and from the guest
OS. It also leads me to believe I should probably be creating this
second interface in /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf so that the second
interface would be created in the guest by xen-create-image, but I can
find no documentation on how to do this.
The guest only shows eth0 and lo in /etc/network/interfaces.
"brctl show" lists two bridges.
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
eth1 8000.00e04da05951 no peth1
xenbr1 8000.feffffffffff no vif2.0
Can anyone either give me an example to look at or point me to a
how-to on this?
Just in case anyone else runs into this issue.
You cannot use dynamic mac address creation, at least not when creating
a purely virtual network and a network that has a public IP address. It
seems to work OK in a DomU that has a single interface, but when there
is more than one interface in a DomU it breaks networking. You can do
thos by modifying the vif = line in /etc/xen/domain.name.cfg file. Use
only the mac address and bridge data for each interface and make sure
you delineate each interface with single quotes. (The examples I had
seen did not do that and it results in only one vif being created in the
DomU.) Or, you can use "xm network-attach mac=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
bridge=bridge-name". You cannot use the ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx option in
"xm network-attach" as that functionality is broken. However, for xm
network-attach to reattach the network to the DomU automatically after
rebooting the DomU or Dom-0 you must script it.
It's also much easier to create the second bridge manually in Dom-0 in
/etc/network/interfaces using pre-up, post-down, and brctl. And, it's
easier to just manually assign the ip addresses for each network device
in /etc/network/interfaces in each DomU.
Here's an example on the bridge creation in Dom-) in
/etc/network/interfaces.
auto brtest
iface brtest inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up brctl addbr brtest
post-down ifconfig brtest down
post-down brctl delbr brtest
The above example allows the DomU's to communicate with Dom-0 using this
bridge. You can stop the DomU's from communicating with Dom-0 over this
interface like this:
auto brtest
iface brtest inet manual
pre-up brctl addbr brtest
post-down ifconfig brtest down
post-down brctl delbr brtest
Anyway, I hope this helps someone else. I beat my head against a wall
for long time over this. Between xen bugs, xen-tools bugs, and lack of
good documentation, getting xen up and running in anything other than a
default configuration on Debian isn't for the faint of heart.
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