Re: Domain 0 kernel, DAC960 and SMP

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:45:49PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 08:39:25PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:46:20PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > > > With Xen2, multiple CPUs can't be used by a single domain, but if you
> > > > have multiple domains running, the hypervisor will schedule them on
> > > > different CPUs.  The assignement is done on domain startup, you can't
> > > > move a domain from one CPU to another once started.
> > > 
> > > Does this demonstrate what you were saying?:
> > > 
> > >  Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> > >  Domain-0           0       63    0  r----    297.1        
> > >  dom1               7      127    1  -b---     11.8    9607
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Ok, I think I have the SMP part figured out and working then. Thanks for
> your help :-)
> 
> I have multiple NICs in the box and want to allocate particular NICs to
> particular doms. I haven't played much with bridging under NetBSD, and
> I'm not to sure what the appropriate way to specify them for Xen is. My
> bridge definition looks like this:
> 
>   vif = [ 'mac=00:90:26:a5:90:31, bridge=bridge0' ]
> 
> What's the proper value for the mac address? Should it be identical to
> the mac for the NIC I want to use, or should it be unique?

It's better to have it unique, 2 same mac addresses on the bridge may
confuse it.


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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