Virtual Network Device

A virtual network device is a virtual device that is defined in a domain connected to a virtual switch. A virtual network device is managed by the virtual network driver, and it is connected to a virtual network through the hypervisor using logical domain channels (LDCs).

Note:

A guest domain supports up to 999 virtual network devices.

A virtual network device can be used as a network interface with the name netn, which can be used like any regular network interface and configured with the Oracle Solaris 11 ipadm command.

You can add a virtual network device to a domain, set options for an existing virtual network device, and remove a virtual network device by using the ldm add-vnet, ldm set-vnet, and ldm remove-vnet commands, respectively. See the ldm(8) man page.

See the information about Oracle VM Server for SPARC networking for Oracle Solaris 11 in the figure titled Oracle VM Server for SPARC Network Overview for the Oracle Solaris 11 OS.