Xenserver 7.6 install

[fyi]

Installing 11.2-u2.1 on xenserver 7.6. Am unable to get dhcp or static ip working/access to gui. Any help is appreciated.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Xen emulates a Realtek NIC by default I believe, you might need to manually override that to present an E1000.

 

[acp]

Installing 11.2-u2.1 on xenserver 7.6. Am unable to get dhcp or static IP working/access to gui. Any help is appreciated.

I ran 11.2-u1 and u2 in xcp-ng and did not have any issues. The freenas kernel had the xen drivers and saw the hypervisor right away. Xcp-ng is a fork of xenserver.

The only issue I have had with freenas in xcp-ng is that vlan interfaces had to be manually configured to up and jails that used vlans could not be auto started.

Note this was only to test. Not a prod machine.

 

[fyi]

Looks like changing the NIC to E1000 worked - thanks! Did this with XOA.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I assume there's something going on at the hypervisor networking level then, eg: bridging not working.

What does the output of ifconfig look like from within the FreeNAS install? Is the interface in an UP state?

 

[acp]

Freenas should see that it operating in a hypervisor and use the xen drivers instead of using the emulated physical network interface.

In the first couple of lines of dmesg you should see

XEN: Hypervisor version 4.7 detected.

You should see xn0, which is the first network interface.

dmesg | grep xn0

output:

xn0: <Virtual Network Interface> at device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0 xn0: Ethernet address: c6:12:31:4c:de:03 xn0: backend features:xenballoon0: feature-sg<Xen Balloon Device> on xenstore0 xn0: 2 link states coalesced xn0: link state changed to UP