Matty wrote: > On 9/23/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com> wrote: > >> Matty wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I recall reading that Xen will utilize crossbow for network interface >>> management. If this is the case, shouldn't crossbow have integrated >>> this week along with Xen? If I misread something along the way, I >>> apologize. >>> >>> >> A certain portion from crossbow, is already integrated. See the "vnic" >> device driver, and the IP instances feature that integrated some months ago. >> > > Cool beans! So virtual NICs are now part of Nevada? Which putback did > vnics integrate with? I can't seem to find any references to this in > the putback logs. > > Thanks, > - Ryan > An early version of the vNIC code was given to the XVM team a couple of months ago and it integrated as part of the XVM putback last week. XVM is using the underlying vNIC functionality in order to get better networking performance, but vNICs aren't exposed to the administrator yet.
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