Comment 7 for bug 190870

The workaround described by Lionel works.
Only xenblk is needed to make a domU boot.

Next stop: getting the network interface operational...
It first does this:
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[ 17.336715] netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
done.

And then somewhat later:
Setting up networking....
Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
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[ 20.297349] NET: Registered protocol family 17
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:09:84:95:20
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:11:09:84:95:20
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.114
PING 192.168.1.11 (192.168.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.11 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

No working leases in persistent database.

Exiting.

Failed to bring up eth0.
done.