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No interfaces detected - Xenserver

I tried to install PetaSan on a Xenserver virtual machine.  No network devices were found by the installer.

Is there a workaround?

unfortunately we do not test under Xen so i cannot say it supported.
If this was just fot testing then i would recommend you do it in a different environment: bare metal/vmware/virtual box.
I do not know a lot about Xen, but can you try running it in hvm mode instead of paravirtualized ?
Also we are currenty using a 3.12 kernel upstreamed from SUSE Enterprise Storage version 3 which requires a special build to support Xen. We do have plans to upgrade to a 4.4 kernel soon (used in SUSE Enterprise Storage version 4), which to my understanding does support Xen as well as bare metal from within a single kernel build. So it may work when we do this upgrade.
Again if this for testing, i recommend running under a different environment.

Cheers
/maged

Hello,

Thanks for the follow up.  I did try both pv and hvm before posting.  It's great that future (soon) versions might support Xen vifs and storage devices.  PetaSan would be a very neat way to build a HA distributed storage cluster for Citrix Xenserver.

I do plan to proceed on bare metal soon.