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[Xen-devel] can several guest OS be bound to their own ports on multipor

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Subject: [Xen-devel] can several guest OS be bound to their own ports on multiport Ethernet NIC?
From: "Igor Mendelev" <imendelev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:08:52 -0500
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Thread-topic: can several guest OS be bound to their own ports on multiport Ethernet NIC?
[basic architecture question from a Xen newbiew; sorry if it's too basic]
 
I'm looking into running 10-15 guest OS (XenoLinux) on a single box where
each guest OS will need separate physical Ethernet connection (with it's own
MAC address etc).
Assuming I'll be using 2 or 4-port NICs (due to limited # of PCI slots), can each of the
4 guest OS be bound to it's own port on such NIC?
Which 4-port NICs (if any) are suppported now? Are any more planned/expected 
to be supported for Xen 3.0 (as this plan depends on using AMD64 anyway)?
 
Thanks.
                 Igor