Octave Orgeron wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> It's good to see this come up for integration. I was wondering how it'll
> impact virtualization (containers, xen, and ldoms)? Will further work be
> required or will it work transparently with things like VSW's in LDoms?
In addition to Jim's comments it makes sense to add that Xen and LDOMs
don't require bridging support in Solaris.
In the control domain (Dom0 if you'd like) we use VNICs instead -
basically handing out a fraction of a NIC to a domU (where the fraction
is a MAC address today, but will be augmented with bandwidth limits by
project Crossbow.
The VNIC abstraction makes it a lot more natural to expose the NICs
characteristics and capabilities (hardware checksum, LSO, etc) to the
domUs, than the current Linux approach of using a bridge to connect the
domUs to the NICs.
Erik
