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Re: [Xen-users] Recomended Vendors for HVM servers?.



Simon Gao írta:
> Dell's new PowerEdge servers (including PE1950, PE2950) have very nasty,
> wired nic1, nic2 switching order problem with onboard nics. Making it
> work with Xen is almost impossible. I've been struggling with the
> problem for over more than a week.
>
> This problem is verified with different Linux distributions and
> confirmed by Dell. Until Dell fixes the problem, you would not want to
> get into this mess.
>
> Simon Gao
>
>
> Jared Bellows wrote:
>   
>> I know that you said you wanted AMD processors, but Dell's PowerEdge
>> line has a couple servers that support HVM domains. I know that the PE
>> 850 has support for VT and I'd bet that the PE 1950 and PE 2950 do as
>> well, as they are their new server line using the Xeon 5000 and 5100
>> series. A call to their Tech Support could verify that information.
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If I'm not misunderstanding your problem the order in which nics are
detected is changed at each reboot.
If that's the case you could try renaming them using udev scripts:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm

Good Luck!

Geza

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