On 9/23/07, Markus Flierl <Markus.Flierl at sun.com> wrote: > 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.
That would explain it. Thanks! - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net
