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Debian Squeeze Xen bridge configuration using /etc/network/interfaces

posted May 20, 2011, 4:31 AM by William Shallum   [ updated May 20, 2011, 4:54 AM ]
In /usr/share/doc/xen-utils-4.0/README.Debian:

Network setup
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The Debian package of Xen don't change the network setup in any way.  This
differs from the upstream version, which overwrites the main network card
(eth0) with a bridge setup and may break the network at this point..

To setup a bridge please follow the instructions in the manpage for
bridge-utils-interfaces(5).

You can also change the /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp file and re-enable the Xen
included network setup by adding
  (network-script network-bridge)
to the file. But please note that this may or may not work.

So, to /etc/networks/interfaces then:

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 10.9.8.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 10.9.8.0
        broadcast 10.9.8.255
        bridge_maxwait 5
        bridge_ports regex vif.*
        # if bridging eth0 as well:
        # bridge_ports regex vif.* noregex eth0
        # all eth and vif?
        # bridge_ports regex (eth|vif).*

# if you want no IP address on the bridge, 
# delete address, netmask, network, and broadcast line
# and change "iface br0 inet static" to "iface br0 inet manual"

In /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp, leave all (network-script ...) lines commented, and just uncomment the (vif-script vif-bridge) line.


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