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Re: [Xen-users] Export /dev/lp0 as VBD?

To: Sander Marechal <s.marechal@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Export /dev/lp0 as VBD?
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:20:27 +0000
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> I have no idea how I would go about doing that. To boot, I just found
> out that the server only has one PCI slot (the rest is PCI-X) and that's
> taken up by the soundcard (for my jukebox server, another domU). So I
> guess there's no other option than to add printserving to dom0.
>
> Thanks anyway for the advice :-)

OK, well maybe we can muddle through this together :-)

Take a look at the output of:

cat /proc/ioports | grep parport

Do you get any results?  The idea is that this should give you the ioport 
range used by the parallel port(s).  In principle you can make sure there 
aren't any parallel port drivers in dom0, and just add this to the domain 
config file in the form:

ioports = [ "start-end" ]

Then try to load your parallel port driver in the domU...

This might not work, but I'd be surprised if it did anything too nasty to your 
system so it might be worth a try.  If you still have problems, we could have 
a go at debugging them.

Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Mark

-- 
Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat?  And no pedals!
Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
Mark: My wheel has a wheel!

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