[crossbow-discuss] Re: Setting up Crossbow

[Steffen Weiberle]

Pradeep Padala wrote On 03/19/07 09:40,:
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> Thanks for the info. My responses below.
> 
>>>> I have installed various version of these bits numerous times on 
>>>> different builds of NV from at least 54 to 56, on both SPARC and 
>>>> x64, and have never seen this error. Most of my testing has been 
>>>> with 54, however.
>>>>
>>>> Which version of NV (you say the lastest--is that 59?) and onbld are 
>>>> you using?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I think I am using 59.
>>
>>
>> That may be the issue. Somehow, in all my crossbow beta testing, I 
>> missed the
>> notification that IP Instances was put back into build 57. So I would 
>> not try
>> to put the Feb 2007 crossbow BFU on top of anything later than build 56.
> 
> 
> How do I get build 56 ?

You can get 55b at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp
via developer express.

I don't know where archives are kept, if anywhere.

Steffen

> 
>> If you are looking for IP Instances only (no VNICs or flowadm), then 
>> build
>> 59 is sufficient. However, you need to have a GLDv3 capable interface, 
>> currently
>> bge, e1000g, ixgb, nge, rge, and xge. If 'dladm show-link' shows 
>> legacy, you will
>> not be able to access the interface within an zone with ip-type set to 
>> exclusive.
> 
> 
> Currently, I don't have a card that has hardware flow classification 
> capability. The plan is to set every thing up and try some of our 
> control algorithms. The features I need are
> 
> 1. Virtual machines. Zones or Xen based VMs.
> 2. Traffic shaping for the VMs. At the minimum, dynamic bandwidth 
> settings for VMs.
> 
> I am not sure about the features you mentioned, but I think I will need 
> both VNICs and flowadm. Some of the details of what we are trying to do 
> is described on our project page at 
> http://kabru.eecs.umich.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/DynamicControl.
> 
> Pradeep
> 
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