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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: NIC: Queue assignment to guest OS
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:47:50 -0400
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:17:17PM -0700, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I have a requirement to assign the transmit and receive queues of a NIC
> card to different guest operating systems so that the guests can directly
> submit transmit requests to controller and receive packets from NIC
> controller without going through a middle layer.  The NIC controller is not
> SRIOV capable and there are a few MSI-X vectors available.

OK. So you want to "export" the rx and tx queue (where each queue is associated
with an MSI-X) in the guest.

> 
>  
> 
> What would be the best way to implement the requirement in Xen? I am new to
> Xen but have experience in a similar virtualization framework.

How did you do this in other virtualization frameworks?