creating a xen bridging interface

in my previous blog, i go over a simple how-to for setting up xen on etch. in this configuration the xen guests are only visible to the xen-host, and any services on the xen-hosts must be accessed via port forwarding, tunneling etc.

for some applications, a bridging configuration works better. you can set this up as follows:

setup your host interfaces file

on your host system, setup an /etc/network/interfaces file similar to:

check the networking defaults in xen-tools

set sensible values for your gateway and netmask in /etc/xen-tools.conf e.g.:

create your virtual machines

create your new virtual machine e.g. now startup your new machine and you should be all set:

thanks

thanks to stan (the man) schwarz and curtis (pigeon death) hilger for helping me with this.