[openib-general] Configuring Guest VMs to use Infiniband interfaces

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Adit Ranadive wrote:

> Novell is planning those changes unfortunately the source tree at
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-smartio.hg is still abt 8 months
> old..
> 
> Also are the mellanox 25208 hcas compatible with the 23208 ones? 

They are compatible in "Tavor" compatibility mode.

> I know that the guestVMs use the hca driver only for 23208.. 
> Unfortunately I have the 25208 ones will they still work in domU?

I'm not sure if the xen-smartio tree supports this.

> Thanks,
> Adit
> 
> On 12/11/06, James Lentini <jlentini at netapp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Adit Ranadive wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone worked with the xen-smartio repository?
> > 
> > Novell has made substantial improvements to the xen-smartio code. They
> > made a presentation at the last workshop:
> > 
> > http://openfabrics.org/conference/nov2006sc/xen-ib-presentation.pdf