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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.
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> 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
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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but they are probably all out of date.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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