There is no reason why this shouldn't work without any changes to OpenSolaris.
Xen supports delegating any pci device (or pci function in a multifunction device) to DomU for direct access. >From there, native NIC driver (Crossbow or "legacy" GLDv3) in Solaris guest should run on the delegated NIC device as if it were running on non-virtualized Solaris system with dedicated NIC. Dom0 can still control Vlan membership and other "privileged" operations on interfaces delegated to DomU, assuming this privileged interface is implemented in NIC vendor's Dom0 driver and hardware. Leonid ________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:crossbow-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Yang Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:08 PM To: Jordan Anderson Cc: crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [crossbow-discuss] Seperate access Dom0/DomU Jordan Anderson wrote: > Is it possible to setup vlans/vnics where Dom0 does not have access to some of the interfaces that a DomU can use? > > That is to say can I allow access to rge0 form Dom0 & DomU while only allowing access to sfe0 from DomU? > > I just can not seem to get it straight in my head if this will work or not. > > Thanks, > > Jordan > Hi Jordan, It seems your requirement is Direct IO or Direct Harware Access, which allows to assign a hardware to a Guest OS. This feature is still under development, and will be support in OpenSolaris. _______________________________________________ crossbow-discuss mailing list crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/attachments/20090519/1aeaaf2e/attachment.html>
