On 9/24/07, Michael Lim <Michael.Lim at sun.com> wrote: > Markus Flierl 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. > Unless #dladm show-link and #ifconfig -a filter them out, you should be > able to see > them. However, won't be able to manage them yet. That will show up > with Crossbow.
Thanks for the clarification. Any idea how far out the crossbow integration is? Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net
