Re: [Xen-users] can VDE be used in Xen

[RumbelStelskin <shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

virtual distributed ethernet


Todd Deshane wrote:
> what is VDE?
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 2:14 AM, RumbelStelskin <shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     i have spent the last 5 hours searching for some
>     post/blog/experience on
>     VDE Xen combo. but to no avail.
>
>     VDE seems to be popular with KVM and other non virtualized
>     environments
>     . Are there ways to use it with Xen, i mean, transparently connect a
>     set of DomUs  in different physical hosts in different networks , to
>     form one virtual network?
>
>     If this cannot be done at Dom0 side, it always can be done at the DomU
>     side, where the domu plugs into a vde switch. But are there any
>     ballpark
>     stats on the performance drops?
>
>     to put things in a nut shell, I am looking for some decent solution
>     (with acceptable levels of performance loss) to form a virtual network
>     of DomUs that are spread across physical machines, across physical
>     networks (some behind nats/firewalls).
>     is vlan the way to go?how?
>
>     thanks
>     r
>
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