Thank you, that helped at least part of the problem.
I no longer get an error message when trying to create the domU, and it
appears that the device is getting passed in. However, dmesg on the domU
gives me
"PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
<Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078 RIP:
[<ffffffff880043a2>] :scsi_mod:scsi_calculate_bounce_limit+0x15/0x49
PGD 20750067 PUD 20751067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: aic7xxx scsi_transport_spi scsi_mod
Pid: 510, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff880043a2>] [<ffffffff880043a2>]
:scsi_mod:scsi_calculate_bounce_limit+0x15/0x49"
.... followed by a call trace, etc. The device does not show up in /dev.
I will keep at it.
~Sarah
Todd Deshane wrote:
Hi,
On Feb 19, 2008 11:03 AM, Sarah Scheibe <scheibe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:scheibe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Again,
I have been attempting to pass the tape drive through to my domU, but am
having no luck. I added pciback.hide(03:02.0) to my modules line in
menu.lst, and added "pci = [ '03:02.0' ]. I've rebooted the dom0,
and now
when I try to start the domU I get the following message:
I think you have to fix your pciback.hide line to be:
pciback.hde=(03:02.0)
You may also want to add pciback.permissive to that line.
Todd
"Error: pci: PCI Backend does not own device 0000:03:02.0
See the pciback.hide kernel command-line parameter or
bind your slot/device to the PCI backend using sysfs"
Any hints would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Sarah
Sarah Scheibe wrote:
> Stephan,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I agree that the ideal solution is to get the tape drive to the domU.
> However, I've tried pci passthrough in the past several times and
so far
> have had absolutely no luck. I'm very open to suggestions as to how I
> can make this tape drive accessible to the domU.
>
> ~Sarah
>
> Stephan Seitz wrote:
>>> Good Morning,
>> Depends ;)
>>
>>
>>> I have a Xen machine with a domU that provides backups for our
>>> department. The domU is running Bacula. The dom0 hosts the bacula
>>> storage daemon which communicates with the tape device connected to
>>> the dom0.
>>>
>>> I recently moved our file server onto this machine under this dom0.
>>> Prior to this move, backups worked fine on the file server as
well as
>>> everything else. However, post move, whenever I attempt to back up
>>> the file server I lose network on both domUs (the backup server and
>>> the file server) until I either kill the bacula storage daemon
on the
>>> dom0 or console in to the backup server and kill bacula from there.
>>> After that, networking returns to both domUs immediately.
>>
>> I've always noticed problems when using load-intensive apps directly
>> on dom0.
>>
>> If you're lucky, you've got enough cores and could try to
cpu-pin dom0
>> and
>> domU's to different, dedicated cores. If your domU's are HVM,
you should
>> check if the netfront modules are loaded and used.
>> Anyway, I would prefer to look on how to get the tape drive
available in
>> your bacula domU and leave dom0 for managing stuff.
>>
>>
>>> These two domUs are the only domUs on this machine. Networking is
>>> never affected on the dom0, just the domUs. Backing up all other
>>> servers still works just fine.
>>>
>>> I am frankly stumped. I am running a debian distribution, and have
>>> tried upgrading the kernel to version 2.6.18 and upgrading to the
>>> most recent Xen hypervisor *MailScanner warning: numerical
links are often malicious:* 3.0.3.1 <http://3.0.3.1> revision, all
without luck in
>>> solving the problem.
>>>
>>> If anyone has any ideas or has run into this problem and found a
>>> solution, your advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Sarah
>>>
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