Re: [Xen-users] XEN and NICS

[Mike Lovell <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Pfeil wrote:
> Hey all, running sles10sp2 with Xen running from Novell.  My goal is to get 
> each virtual server its own nic.  Here is what I have:
>
> -   eth0 (onboard broadcom) is the nic dom0 is using, this has an IP address
> -   eth1 (onboard broadcom) does not have an IP address, nothing connected
> -   eth2-9 (two quad-port intel nics) these do not have an IP address.
> -   All nics will be on the same subnet.
>
> So, with the above shouldn't my bridge script be as follows:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> dir=$(dirname $0)
> "${dir}/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=2 netdev=eth2 bridge=eth2
> "${dir}/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=3 netdev=eth3 bridge=eth3
>
> and so on.....
>
> Wouldn't adding eth0 to the script mess things up?  Shouldn't I leave eth0 and 
> eth1 out of the script?
>   
If you aren't going to use eth0 for guest vms, then I would leave it out 
of your wrapper script. It will just turn into one more thing to debug 
when there are problems. I would say the same for eth1. Will putting 
them in mess things up? It kind of depends on the rest of the 
configuration. But the way you are showing seems like it should work.
Here is another approach to this though. If each nic is going to be 
dedicated to individual virtual machines, you could do a pci passthru on 
them and give each nic to the associated virtual machine. This can take 
a bit of voodoo to get working but as long are you are using a 
paravirtualized guest and the nics are presented to the host as 
individual pci devices, it should be possible to get working. Section 
5.3 of the Xen 3.0 users manual might help. Basically, you hide the pci 
device from the host and a pci option to the configuration for the 
device to pass thru. I don't remember all of the particulars since it 
has been a while. But that might be able to get you started on it.
Finally, why have individual nics for guests if all of them are going to 
be on the same subnet? I am mainly curious here. For me, the existing 
network setups and documentation work well. So I would like to see why 
you are doing this.
Hopefully I have been of some help instead of just confusing you.

Mike

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