Re: [Xen-users] PCI passthru

["Christopher Isip" <cmisip@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Geoff Gibbs <geoff.gibbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been trying to get PCI passthru to work for a while now.
I am running 3.3-unstable on Centos 5.1. I have a Intel XEON
5140 CPU, with the latest BIOS.

I would like to be able to pass the SAS raid controller from
dom0 to dumU.

Do I need to do anything special to domU? It is running Fedora
core 4.

Is there any real documentation available on how to configure
PCI passthru on both dom0 and dumU?

thanks,

--
Geoff Gibbs
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I have centos as well and the pciback is a module ( hence not part of the booting kernel).  You have to use late binding with pciback.  These are the steps I took to hide an ethernet card from dom0.

Grub --> nothing to do here

/etc/modprobe.conf:
options pciback hide=(0000:03:08.0)
install e100 /sbin/modprobe pciback ; /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install e100

  --> only need the install line if your dom0 kernel has modules for the pci device. 

Now boot the domU with a line in the config file :
pci = [ '0000:03:08.0' ]


In some cases you may have to set the device to be permissive. In /sbin/lspci -vnn, get the device numbers:
03:08.0 0200: 8086:27dc (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 1028:01ab
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        Memory at efbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at dcc0 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2


And then put them in xend-pci-permissive.sxp

(unconstrained_dev_ids
      ('8086:27dc:1028:01ab')
)


Boot the domU and it should see the device.

Chris
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