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Re: [Xen-users] CentOS 4.0 as guest OS

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] CentOS 4.0 as guest OS
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:09:17 +0000
Cc: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I have a strong hunch your setup won't work though.
> You might be able to use HVM domU instead, and (if the device is PCI)
> use PCI passthrough. This way you should be able to use normal RHEL4
> kernel.

Mark: To do PCI passthrough to an HVM guest you currently need to be running 
xen-unstable and have a system which supports VT-d (which is an IO-related 
addition to VT - sadly, just having VT isn't enough).

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
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