Nicolas Droux wrote:
> The basic idea would be to allow each non-global zone to have its own
> name space for network devices. For example, this would allow each zone
> to have a "net0" interface. Each "net0" could map underneath to separate
> physical devices, VNICs, etc. As Erik mentioned, this means that
> obtaining the underlying device would have to include the zone id in
> addition to the device name.
>
> This would make zone configuration and eventual migrations easier since
> the configuration refering to network interface names could be identical
> for all the zones on a machine, and would ease the migration since we
> wouldn't have to worry about conflicts with other zones running on the
> target host.
Yes, but that goal could be accomplished using vanity naming with longer
names. E.g., for the zone named "zoneA", you can use vanity naming to
create a link name 'zoneA-net0' and then use that in zonecfg.
As long as "zoneA" is unique across your servers then this name is also
unique. And if you have two zones called "zoneA" then you can't migrate
both of them to be on the same server.
Erik
