Talk:HOWTO Virtual Xen Servers and Gentoo
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[edit] Getting NFS to work
I just used a stage-3 gentoo tarball to install a DomU. Skipped all kernel, portage and bootloader stuf en before leaving the chrooted environment. Before chrooting, just mount the portage tree and kernel sources into the tree, then emerged nfs-utils and portmap Don't forget to rc-update add nfs default, also nfsmount and portmap need to be added. I usually mount /etc/portage/, /usr/src/ and /usr/portage on all my DomU domains, and seems to work fine. Not starting portmapper may introduce loads of NFS problems.
--Jhendrix 12:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This article is a duplicate
Why was this article even created? There's already an existing Xen article at HOWTO Xen and Gentoo - I would highly recommend you abandon this apparently duplicate article and improve the existing article instead of duplicating material.
I suggest a merge recommendation with the above mentioned article.
-- AllenJB 21:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Networking?
What I would be interested in, is, how you manage to bind the multiple Xen domUs to different IP addresses, create bridges and what else you need. I've not worked with Xen before, but I'm planning to set up a shared rented server (dom0) which will hold two or three domUs. There are multiple (internet accessible) IP addresses, but I'm not sure yet how to bind the domUs to those IP addresses.
to AllenJB: I think it's a good idea to have an article which describes (in detail) one probably popular use case of Xen.
--Padde 19:04, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Networking
Hi Padde, I will try to update the HOWTO with networking stuff first, its not really that complicated.
to AllenJB: The idea behind this article is to show how to set up the multiple servers to work with each other. I agree that duplicating information is not a good thing and I try to reference the XEN Howto as much as possible (you can edit out if you want...). However, some things are not covered in that article that is specific to the domains working together and sometimes it is just nice to have all the pointers on one page, because setting up a server that will have a mailserver, a webserver, nameservers, a database server as separte instances will probably be quite common for people without cash for several servers...
--Gregory Bleiker 25 September 2006
Hi, the current "Network configuration" makes clear how to set it up. Anyways, I get problems with the bridge-setup: If I get it right, at system startup my eth0 is the physical device. If the /etc/init.d/xend startup script takes control and "renames" the eth0 interface to peth0, then it takes over the IP's, routes and the mac-adress and adds them to a new device "eth0" which is indeed a virtual device added to the bridge. Am I right? The point is, that the mac-address is not transfered to the new "fake-eth0"-device. Additionally, If I shutdown xend, the original network-setup is not restored. Since I use 3.04p1 I can't figure out what went wrong here. Please can someon with a working configuration post a output of a "ifconfig", maybe I can find the error there and fix it.
--Andreas Piening 23 August 2007
[edit] Unlocking Plans?
When is this page going to be unlocked?
Jsnx 00:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Right now, 7 months of inactivity is enough. --Ghettodev 06:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
