On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:50:32AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > thewird wrote: > >--- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Mathew Brown wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> I was wondering what the differences between Fedora 8's Xen and > >>> XenExpress v4 are (besides the limits of 4GB or RAM and four > >>virtual > >>> hosts). Is the functionality and stability the same or is > >>Fedora's > >>> Xen more cutting-edge? Thank you for your help. > >>I'm not very familiar with XenExpress, but I'm fairly sure that the > >>management software used by XE is some proprietary code. Fedora uses > >> > >>libvirt and virt-manager for management, has no artificial > >>limitations > >>on memory, CPUs, guests etc., and is completely open source. > > > >Does Fedora 8 have any way to limit the network speed on the guests? > > I assume, though I've not tried it, that you should be able to use > ordinary Linux mechanisms such as the 'tc(8)' command to enforce a > traffic control and shaping on the vifX.0 devices. Yes, if you modified the '/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge' script you could make it run 'tc' against the vifX.0 devices when bringing up a guest to give it a fixed data limit. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
