[xen-tools] Re: xennet

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Steve Kemp wrote:

>  I think this is the kind of thing that you should probably consider a 
> local change.

Well, fine.

>  Create the directory /etc/xen-tools/skel.d/etc, and place a file called 
> "modules" inside it.  This will be copied over to your new system(s).

/etc/xen-tols/skel/etc , you mean?  I did that and it worked great.

>  I think your situation of installing Debian upon a Fedora host with a 
> kernel not having xennet compiled in is sufficiently unusual that it 
> isn't something that should be handled automatically.

Well, I hope that xen-tools can get wide enough distribution that my use 
case is common, not rare. (-:

>  (Failing that you could write a shell script and place it in 
> /usr/lib/xen-tools/debian.d/ - using the existing scripts as a guide.)

I might try that.  Do the Debian Xen kernels really have xennet compiled 
in?  That seems a strange choice, but I guess I can live with this local 
config for now.

-- Asheesh.

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