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What is your reason for wanting to do passthrough I/O? The only really good reason I can think of for it is that you have an application that requires very high throughput and extremely low latency. Otherwise the bridge should be fine, and I can think of several reasons why you don't want to use passthrough I/O. One of which is the one you mentioned - migration will be worthless because your domUs will be hardware dependent.
So, if you're still insistent upon doing passthrough I/O, then, yes, you'll need one network card for every domU you have running.
-Nick
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Asim <linkasim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2) You don't want to do direct NIC access to a domU, you want to use a
> bridge. By default XEN creates a bridge (can't remember what they're
> calling it these days) that bridges eth0 to all of your domUs. This should
> allow you to use your single network card with as many domUs as you have on
> your system.
>
>
I want to do passthrough I/O for my specific needs and not use virbr0.
I believe
this will also disable migration if am not wrong? So, to do a direct NIC access
I think I should hide this PCI from Domain-0, so will need a second additional
NIC?
-Asim
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