Further Thoughts

Variants of this same technique can be used to provide logging and accounting on a per-domain basis, or they can set up domain-specific firewall rules just by editing the network scripts. Ultimately, Xen's networking infrastructure is so flexible that you're able to do anything with a domU that you can with the dom0 (or, for that matter, with a non-Xen system), and there are enough script hooks to do it in an automated fashion.

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