[Xen-devel] can several guest OS be bound to their own ports on multiport Ethernet NIC?

["Igor Mendelev" <imendelev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[basic architecture question from a Xen newbiew; sorry if it's too basic]

 

I'm looking into running 10-15 guest OS (XenoLinux) on a single box where

each guest OS will need separate physical Ethernet connection (with it's own

MAC address etc).

Assuming I'll be using 2 or 4-port NICs (due to limited # of PCI slots), can each of the

4 guest OS be bound to it's own port on such NIC?

Which 4-port NICs (if any) are suppported now? Are any more planned/expected 

to be supported for Xen 3.0 (as this plan depends on using AMD64 anyway)?

 

Thanks.

                 Igor