Xen doesn't recognise NIC's?

@freak:

Hi,

I've tried several versions of Xen including the latest version of xen 2 and of xen3. I tried compiling the source code of xen, and installing binary packages, but I failed with all.

With every attempt I started with a scratch installation of debian sarge. The entire installation procedure goes smooth, but everytime I boot with the Xen module, I do not have any NIC module loaded.

Anybody who can help me out? modprobe and lsmod do not seem to work, ….

Regards,

Freak

I believe that the default xen setup is such that only domain 0 will support kernel modules. This is because other domains would not normally support any hardware directly.

If your network interface isn't supported in domain 0 build a kernel module to support it and insmod.

If you want more network interfaces in XenU domains you don't need kernel modules, just add more vif lines to the domain config files.