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

[Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@xxxxxx>]

Igor Mendelev wrote:
> [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)?

what about controlling the NICs from domain0 and using one physical 
interface per xen-bridge? Every domain will have its own bridge...
j.



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