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RE: [Xen-devel] Network bandwidth control in Xen

To: Pradeep Padala <ppadala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Network bandwidth control in Xen
From: "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:15:15 +0000
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] Network bandwidth control in Xen
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to control the network bandwidth used by a virtual
> machine in
> Xen?

You can only rate limit the outbound network traffic from guest domains using 
the "rate" parameter of the vif=['...'] option.
For other or more advanced QoS configurations you might have to fall back on 
Linux kernel capabilities like queuing disciplines etc.



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