Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - VIRTUALIZATION WITH XEN Manual page 97

root=/dev/hdaX, where hdaX is the disk and partition of your root partition.
For example, this will look like root=/dev/hda2.
3 Shutdown your VM Guest. The Xen paravirtualized disk driver will be used the
next time you reboot this VM Guest.
7.6.2 Editing the Configuration File to
Recognize the Virtual Network Card
1 If your VM Guest is running, first shut it down.
2 On the VM Host Server, open a terminal and enter xm delete vm_name to
delete the virtual machine's reference in the Xen store so it is no longer managed.
TIP
Enter xm list to see the name of the virtual machine (vm_name).
3 Open the virtual machine configuration file located on virtualization host server
(/etc/xen/vm/vm_cfgfile, where vm_cfgfile is usually the same as
the name of the virtual machine).
4 Remove all parameters from the vif= line except the mac=mac_address param-
eter. Make sure to leave the single quotes.
For example, change the line
vif=[ 'mac=00:16:3e:55:24:21,model=pcnet,type=ioemu', ]
to
vif=[ 'mac=00:16:3e:55:24:21,type=netfront', ]
5 At the terminal, enter xm new vm_cfgfile to reference the virtual machine
in the Xen store so it is managed again.
6 Restart the virtual machine by using YaST > Virtualization > Virtual Machine
Manager.
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