[geeks] the virtualization project

[Shannon]

On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:09 , Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> On Friday, September 16, 2011, Shannon wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:24 , Bill Bradford wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:17:01AM -0400, Shannon wrote:
>>>
>>> ohno.mrbill.net is a Debian 6 quad-core (AMD Athlon II 640) system
>>> with 16 of RAM, with ohno being the "native" host system.  I'm
>>> also running three different VMs under Qemu/KVM; two Debian 6 and
>>> one FreeBSD, paravirtualized (virtio) drivers being used when
>>> possible.  It's been "in production" for 9-10 months now and works
>>> *great*.
>>
>> I spent last nite and this morning installing Debian squeeze.
>>
>> I could not try KVM because the machine has no HVM support, so I
>> tested Xen.
>>
>> The GUI tools for LVM, Xen, and KVM all seem broken, so I gave up
>> playing with them. I was just curious about them. Using the command
>> line tools was just faster and easier.
>
> I didn't realize there were gui tools. Why put a gui on your Dom0 box?
> :)
>
>> One thing I can't make work is networking for the guest operating
>> systems. They cannot send or receive packets.
>
>
> Try this.
>
> apt-get remove network-manager
>
> Set up eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces like normal. It should look sorta
> like this:
>
> auto eth0
> interface eth0 inet static
> 	address 192.168.0.2
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	gateway 192.168.0.1

See whenever I do this, the gateway is not set.

Also it looks like Xen is creating the vif interface with IPv6, so maybe I
need to turn some feature off.



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