----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Leong <gwle...@gmail.com> Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 4:07 am Subject: Re: [crossbow-discuss] Xen vnics and Crossbow question To: crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Oh..that's right. Funny thing is that I used zones before, about > two years ago when it first came out. I forgot about the NIC > aliases. > > Xen on linux has VNICs, but I believe that are "bridged" to the > host NIC. It's similar to VMware, that also permits a VLAN among > VMs, not within a zone. Why would you want a VLAN within a zone? Basically it is the global administrator who gives VLAN(s) to a zone. You cannot create/manipulate the VLAN(s) inside a zone. > > A side question. Do you know if you can assign only on CPU per > zones, or is that only control through CPU shares? I don't want my > processes switching among the available cpus. In Xen, you can only > allow the VM to see one, two, or how many CPUs. I know you can set > the affinity for a process, but it be easier just to permit one CPU > per zone - keep things simplier. I guess pool or dedicated-cpu is what you want. You can find them in zonecfg(1M). (I have problem accessing docs.sun.com at this time, thus I cannot give you the link there, sorry about that.) > > Thanks for the response. I continue to be impress with Solaris 10. Great, all members on this alias like to here this. ;-) Best, Donghai.
