Nicolas Droux wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I posted a first draft of the Crossbow virtualization architecture
>document. It can be found at:
>
>http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Docs/crossbow-virt.pdf
>
>
good job Nicolas.
Quick comments/questions after a first skimming:
. About the Random MAC addresses for vnic. What was the rationale for
having the local
bit set?
. There could be a bit of inconcistency in the expected behavior between
create-vnic and
move-vnic: create-vnic without -m attempts to allocates a factory MAC
address, and, in
case of unavailability generates a random one. The user doesn't need
any extra option
for the right thing to succees. On the other hand, if the user is
moving a
vnic that was using a factory MAC address (even without the user's
explicitly asking for it),
to a NIC that doesn't has MAC address slots left, then he/she needs to
pass an overriding
option, -F, to force the move.
The user didn't care in the first time whether hardware resource
must be used for
the vnic, and shouldn't care when the vnic is relocated neither.
. Any example of what down-vnic is needed for?
Kais
