On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:06:48PM +0200, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
Anno domini 2009 Daniel P. Berrange scripsit:
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In the (nearish) future NICs will start appearing with SR-IOV capabilities. This gives you one physical PCI device, whcih exposes multiple functions. So a single physical NIC appears as 8 NICs to the OS. You can thus directly assign each of these virtual NICs to a different VM directly,a voiding the need to bridge them.
I don't think its worth spending too much time trying to come up with other non-bridged NIC sharing setups when hardware is about todo it all for us :-)
Is this hope or do you know about any timelime for this?
Hardware exists today & patches are avialable for upstream Linux. http://lwn.net/Articles/308238/ The question mark is more over how long it takes before the hardware is widely available & shipped to consumers by vendors. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|