Re: allocating virtual nic to domain0

[Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2005, at 15:02, Andrew Theurer wrote:
>
>> Björn Sessler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> i have a setup with 2 bridges, one on ethertap tap0 serving internal 
>>> services like nfs for xenU domains and one on separate bridge eth0 
>>> for outside communication. so xen0/xenU internal traffic won't 
>>> effect the bridge on eth0 and performance is much better... you need 
>>> to define the mac in config-file, because with dynamic configuration 
>>> both eth-devices in xenU will have same mac.
>>>
>> Actually, what I wanted to do was assign a xen virtual front-end 
>> ethernet to domain0, in a similar manner that one would assign one to 
>> another domain (nics = 1 in config file).  I can't seem to do that 
>> for domain0.  It seems like the options for domain0 ae a bit limited.
>
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying no network 
> interfaces are available in domain0? domain0 has access to all 
> physical interfaces installed on your machine. For example, I have a 
> 3c59x and a RTL8139 which are both accessible from domain0 as eth0 and 
> eth1, respectively.
>
I would like to have one device per domain: domain0 has scsi 
controller1, domin2 has network adapter 1, etc.  In order to do this, 
domain0 still needs network access.

-Andrew


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