[crossbow-discuss] Crossbow and Xen

[Matty]

On 9/24/07, Michael Lim <Michael.Lim at sun.com> wrote:
> Markus Flierl wrote:
> > Matty wrote:
> >> On 9/23/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Matty wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Howdy,
> >>>>
> >>>> I recall reading that Xen will utilize crossbow for network interface
> >>>> management. If this is the case, shouldn't crossbow have integrated
> >>>> this week along with Xen? If I misread something along the way, I
> >>>> apologize.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> A certain portion from crossbow, is already integrated.  See the "vnic"
> >>> device driver, and the IP instances feature that integrated some months ago.
> >>>
> >> Cool beans! So virtual NICs are now part of Nevada? Which putback did
> >> vnics integrate with? I can't seem to find any references to this in
> >> the putback logs.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> - Ryan
> >>
> > An early version of the vNIC code was given to the XVM team a couple of
> > months ago and it integrated as part of the XVM putback last week. XVM
> > is using the underlying vNIC functionality in order to get better
> > networking performance, but vNICs aren't exposed to the administrator yet.
> Unless #dladm show-link and #ifconfig -a filter them out, you should be
> able to see
> them.  However, won't be able to manage them yet.  That will show up
> with Crossbow.

Thanks for the clarification. Any idea how far out the crossbow integration is?

Thanks,
- Ryan
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