{"id":23,"date":"2007-01-17T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brandonking.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2009-07-09T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:02:09","slug":"xen-error-error-device-0-vif-could-not-be-connected-backend-device-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/xen-error-error-device-0-vif-could-not-be-connected-backend-device-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"xen error: Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, I&#8217;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 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">xm create -c debian_etch_guest.cfg vmid=1<\/span> I got the following error:<\/p>\n<p>Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found.<\/p>\n<p>I googled for the error and didn&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p>apt-get install bridge-utils<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, now the guest domain boots without a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,11],"tags":[26,27,63,66],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers_it","category-linux-it","category-sysadmin","category-virtual_machines","tag-debian","tag-debian-etch","tag-virtual-machine","tag-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}