Re: [Xen-users] xen and pciback.hide, doesn't survive domU reboot

[Peter Sjoberg <peters-opensuse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it no one who can even give a hint as to what I can do about the
problem? 

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:18 -0400, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
> I'm running OpenSUES 10.2 on a Pentium4 system where I have installed
> XEN and some guests.
> One of the guests is a (opensuse 10.2) firewall with 5 NICs. Since we
> have the limit of max 3 vifs' I'm exporting 2 with help of pciback. This
> works fine most of the time but sometimes the guest doesn't find the 2
> direct exported ports ("lspci" returns nothing). It seems to never work
> if I reboot the guest and if I shutdown/create it works most of the time
> but not always.
> 
> What can I do to make sure it always works?
> Where should I look for the problem ?
> 
> Config data: On the host (dom0) I have
> 
> root@dom0# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.local
> options pciback hide=(0000:03:02.1)(0000:03:03.1)
> install sunhme /sbin/modprobe pciback ; /sbin/modprobe --first-time
> --ignore-install sunhme
> 
> 
> root@dom0# cat /etc/xen/vm/worf
> disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/worf/hda,hda,w' ]
> memory = 256
> vcpus = 1
> builder = 'linux'
> name = 'worf'
> #
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:0f:fb, bridge=xenbr0', 'mac=00:16:3e:00:ac:fb,
> bridge=xenbr1','mac=00:16:3e:c0:a8:fb, bridge=xenbr2' ]
> pci=['0000:03:02.1','0000:03:03.1']
> localtime = 0
> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> on_reboot = 'restart'
> on_crash = 'restart'
> extra = ' TERM=xterm'
> bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/domUloader.py'
> bootentry = 'hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen'
> 
> 
> On the guest I configured the network ports with "yast lan" and after
> making the MAC static (it changed after each boot) it works whenever the
> bypassed nics are available.
> 
>  root@domU:~# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.local
>  options sunhme macaddr=0x08,0x00,0x20,0x00,0x00,0x49
> 
> Both host and guest runs a fully patched opensuse 10.2 -32bit
> 



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