Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:19:37 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Fernando Gleiser <fergleiser@yahoo.com> Cc: virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network stack virtualization docs? Message-ID: <4C118119.5050303@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <384709.32358.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <384709.32358.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 6/10/10 3:07 PM, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > I'm looking for some technical docs about FreeBSD's network stac virt. I saw a paper from the wiki and little else. The paper seems to focus mostly on the paralielization of the network stack more than the framework for a virtualized network. > > I want to compare it against OpenSolaris' crossbow, which has a way to virtualize almost anything: virtual nics, virtual switches and virtual wires, so you can build a "wan in a box". Is there anything like that for FreeBSD? any pointers to good docs would be apreciated > > > Fer > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" firstly you should probably post to virtualization@freebsd.org (CC'd) there have been various papers presented since 2003 on the topic but they are probably all out of date. the mechanism currently used is descripbed a bit in the 'how to virtualize a module' document. click on the 'download' link here: http://p4db.freebsd.org/fileViewer.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/vimage/porting_to_vimage.txt&REV=18 It describes how things are virtualized. once you have read that come back to this list with questions.
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