[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

I'm very sorry to have misinformed you. I didn't check my remarks on a
working system and I mixed up two things.

Virtualbox will discover even an unplumbed device.

It was the zones booting that I had in mind. On my solaris 10 server I need
to plumb all interfaces that are used inside a zone on the global zone
before the zone can use it.

Ooops, sorry


-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99roax at student.chalmers.se]
Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 14:38
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

On 2012-01-26 14:05, James Carlson wrote:
> Open Indiana wrote:
>> Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion.
>>
>> Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then
>> the interface is visible in the menu.
> Oh, yuck.  It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see
> dlpi_walk(3DLPI)), at least on OpenIndiana.
>
> If portability to older Solaris systems is necessary, it should be
> enumerating DLPI interfaces using libdevinfo.
>
> Piggybacking on IP isn't right at all.
>
Note that VirtualBox offers several types of virtualized networking modes.
In NAT mode where it communicates with the IP stack of the host maybe this
makes sense whereas it doesn't in bridged mode.

If VirtualBox and OpenIndiana did what they promised without hickups I
wouldn't even need two network interfaces to ensure the operation of the
system. But when bugs occur we try to get around them until they are fixed,
and that requires at least some knowledge about the system which I'm really
happy to have acquired.

I can even see on the activity LEDs on the switch that the VMs' network is
independent of the hosts network.



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