Lightweight virtual network (as in virtual hub/switch) creation will be an important requirement for anything but the most basic of cloud [infrastructure] architectures...

Sam

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:02 PM, <eprparadocs@gmail.com> wrote:
That works nicely.

Peace,
Chuck

Chris Webb wrote:
> eprparadocs@gmail.com writes:
>
>> How would I create a "virtual lan network" called FOO and have the VMs I
>> create connect to it? I want to do this in certain cases where I have
>> multi-homed VMs in which one of the NICs is connected to the general
>> network and the other NICs are used to route traffic amongst themselves.
>
> As an example of how this might work, in our (EH) API you do
>
>   /resources/vlan/create
>
> to create a VLAN (virtual network) and get its identifier, and then define
> your network card as attached to it. For example, for a machine with a
> public facing interface with dynamic IP and a VLAN attached interface,
>
>   nic:0:dhcp auto
>   nic:1:vlan VLAN-ID
>
> in the guest config.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.

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