Re: [Xen-devel] Q&A question: Dynamic Network Throttling?

[Russ Pavlicek <russell.pavlicek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pasi,

Thanks.  Can you suggest a particular HowTo or other document I can
suggest to him as a reference?

Russ

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Russ Pavlicek wrote:
>> The following question came through on the Q&A system at
>> XenProject.org and I can't locate an answer for it.
>>
>> I know about the configuration for setting max bandwidth for VMs, but
>> nothing for having that setting dynamically adjust according to total
>> bandwidth on the machine.
>>
>> The question reads:
>>
>> "Hello!
>>
>> Is there a way to set up Xen that it distributes network bandwidth
>> based on current needs?
>>
>> Let's say I have 10 guest OS, each of them gets 10Mb/s. However, when
>> one of the hosts want to download something, and the rest don't use
>> their bandwidth at all he should be able to download at 100Mb/s.
>>
>> Sorry if this is a noob question, but I couldn't find the answer
>> anywhere. What should i use? Can qemu / Open vSwitch do that?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help."
>>
>> The original entry can be found here:
>> http://xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/dynamic-network-speed.html
>>
>
> If he's using Linux in dom0 then the usual Linux tc/QoS stuff can be used.. 
> requires some scripting though.
>
>
>> Russ
>>
>
>
> -- Pasi
>

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