Comments on: HOWTO: Use more than 3 virtual interfaces with Xen (by using IP Aliasing)

By: xentutorial.com

xentutorial.com — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:22:27 +0000

HOWTO: Use more than 3 virtual interfaces with Xen (by using IP Aliasing)…

Xen does not support using more than 3 virtual interfaces on the guest machines (the so-called DomU). It is stated in the Xen FAQ, and attempting to use more results in what Ernie Fontes experienced in this post. The usual trick for having more interfa…

By: Some useful Links and References - Xen Tutorial

Some useful Links and References - Xen Tutorial — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:51:18 +0000

[...] * http://www.dalouche.com/wordpress/2006/11/26/howto-use-more-than-3-virtual-interfaces-with-xen-by-us... [...]

By: hannes

hannes — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:26:40 +0000

Adding secondary IPs (what you probably mean with ip aliasing) works without any problems both on Xen 2 and Xen 3. If you did not get it working, you must have made some mistake.

Are you still using the old eth0, eth0:1, eth0:2 notation? If so, try to use “ip addr add 1.2.3.4/32 dev eth0″ instead.

By: Sami Dalouche » Blog Archive » Xen 3.0 limitations

Sami Dalouche » Blog Archive » Xen 3.0 limitations — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:31:01 +0000

[...] In a recent post, Ian lists the current limitations of Xen 3.0. Nice work ! Definitely Useful, but I would just like to add that there is a trick that I previously described, to circumvent the 3 network interfaces limit. [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:58:14 +0000

Sami,

I’m not sure if you’ll even respond to this but is there any way you can help me out with setting a basic bridged network with Xen? I’m having a very difficult time trying to find the resources to get this accomplished.

My e-mail is bpark@dolda2000.com.

Thank you.

-Bruce