Hi Jason,
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Jason Douglas
I don't know if any official documentation exists yet.
Fair enough. Unfortunate when things have changed -- seemingly significantly -- at an actual release. Nonetheless ...
There was a bug opened to get documentation created for this, but it is still open. However, there is some explanation in the bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432709
Thanks for the reference. Unfortunately, even though logged in to bugzilla, I get: You are not authorized to access bug #432709 I'm guessing it's tagged as 'internal only'?
That's correct. It works the same with or without the GUI.
Ok.
To understand the reasons for the change (snip)
... all clear ...
results in numerous potential problems such as a complete breakdown when restarting the network ("rcnetwork restart"),
yup. been there, done that :-)
Therefore, beginning with openSUSE 11.1 and SLES 11, the xen networking scripts are disabled by default, and functionality has been added to yast to handle bridged network configurations.
Aha. So it'll be 'in' SLES 11 as well. Important to know.
This way the networking is setup correctly the first time (no rip and replace after boot time) and functionality such as restarting the network works as expected. There is no need for any sort of special script because you configure the networking once, just like you normally would when installing openSUSE without XEN. The difference is that you either a) accept the default bridged networking proposal, or b) make customizations that more closely mirror your needs.
This makes some sense -- though I'm unclear as to how separate networking setups for, e.g., xen- and non-xen- boot instances are handled.
In your case, where you already have a non-bridge network configuration, you might want to try running the "Install Hypervisor and Tools" yast module. This will setup the default bridged networking configuration and you could use it as a reference for how things should look.
This seems the right first step ...
Sorry I don't know of any place that this is documented.
...eventually ...
Let me know if you have any other questions.
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