Re: [crossbow-discuss] Crossbow and Xen

Markus Flierl wrote:
> Matty wrote:
>> On 9/23/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore@xxxxxxx> 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.

-Mike