Re: [Xen-users] physical nic to xen

[kanour-xen <xen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Lane wrote:
> APOLOGIES: I meant to send this to the list, not to Max.
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 1:59 PM, Jeff Lane <sundowner225@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Nov 20, 2007 12:11 PM, Maximilian Wilhelm <max@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Am Tuesday, den 20 November hub Artur Baruchi folgendes in die Tasten:
> > > > Is there a way to specify a physical nic (like eth0 or eth1) to a
> > > > guest?! I mean... My server has 2 nics, and I wanna that my guest to
> > > > use eth1. Is it possible?
> > > Maybe you can hide the pci-id for eth1 from Dom0 and pass the
> > > pci-device to the dom-u.
> > I have no idea what that means...  but that's ok.. I'm dense.
> >
> > Seems to me that this is simpler:
> >
> > 1:  Create a xen bridge device and attach each physical NIC to it,
> > e.g. eth0 is attached to bridge0 and eth1 is attached to bridge1.
> > 2:  In your guest config, create a config line for each of the virtual
> > NICs, and assign each one to a bridge... so virt-eth0 is attached to
> > bridge0, and virt-eth1 is attached to bridge1.
> > 3:  Profit!
> >
> > Seriously, it's that simple, and it works.  I've done it a few times.
> > The only thing I never got to really work correctly was NIC teaming
> > for failover or load balancing... but that's a different story.
Hi.

You have got two ways.

1.) you can use bridges as 
here:http://zh.stikipad.com/notes/show/Xen+domUs+with+two+NICs
2.) you can hide the pci and attach it to domU (exclusive access) - see 
user manual section 5.3
Have a good day.

jiri

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