Brandon W. King's Blog » debian etch http://www.brandonking.net/blog Blogging about Python, Bioinformatics, Programming, System Administration, Cognitive Science, Philosophy and Life Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 xen error: Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found. http://www.brandonking.net/blog/2007/01/17/xen-error-error-device-0-vif-could-not-be-connected-backend-device-not-found/ http://www.brandonking.net/blog/2007/01/17/xen-error-error-device-0-vif-could-not-be-connected-backend-device-not-found/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:25:00 +0000 Brandon W. King http://blog.brandonking.net/?p=23 Currently, I’m working on setting up Xen 3.0.3 on Debian Etch 64-bit. I installed the debian packages rebooted and used xen-tools to create a Debian etch guest domain. When I used xm create -c debian_etch_guest.cfg vmid=1 I got the following error:

Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.

I googled for the error and didn’t immediately find a solution to the problem (it may still be there in the search results), but as it turned out, the only thing I needed to do was install bridge-utils:

apt-get install bridge-utils

That’s it, now the guest domain boots without a problem.

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