WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Recomended Vendors for HVM servers?.

To: Simon Gao <gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Recomended Vendors for HVM servers?.
From: Gémes Géza <geza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:30:18 +0200
Cc: Jared Bellows <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Vanderley <vanderro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:31:17 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <44C79CBE.1010907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <44C6AD89.7060302@xxxxxxxxxx> <4fcf6a50607252112t34ae6650pc98df906c6b93017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <44C79CBE.1010907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615)
Simon Gao írta:
> Dell's new PowerEdge servers (including PE1950, PE2950) have very nasty,
> wired nic1, nic2 switching order problem with onboard nics. Making it
> work with Xen is almost impossible. I've been struggling with the
> problem for over more than a week.
>
> This problem is verified with different Linux distributions and
> confirmed by Dell. Until Dell fixes the problem, you would not want to
> get into this mess.
>
> Simon Gao
>
>
> Jared Bellows wrote:
>   
>> I know that you said you wanted AMD processors, but Dell's PowerEdge
>> line has a couple servers that support HVM domains. I know that the PE
>> 850 has support for VT and I'd bet that the PE 1950 and PE 2950 do as
>> well, as they are their new server line using the Xeon 5000 and 5100
>> series. A call to their Tech Support could verify that information.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xen-users mailing list
>> Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>     
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>   
If I'm not misunderstanding your problem the order in which nics are
detected is changed at each reboot.
If that's the case you could try renaming them using udev scripts:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm

Good Luck!

Geza

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users