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Re: [Xen-devel] Source of guest-physical address in PCI BAR for HVM domain?


  • To: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David Stone" <unclestoner@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: "David Stone" <unclestoner@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:25:47 -0500
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Thanks for your response.

> > So I guess this the PCI config-space write to set the BAR is passed to
> > qemu-dm as a command from the hypervisor
>
> Yes.

But doesn't qemu act as the BIOS for HVM domains?  Why would the
hypervisor be doing the initial PCI BAR setup?

> > If so, shouldn't the early PCI configuration from the BIOS be coming
> > from qemu itself?
>
> It is. It's odd you have troubles so early in the boot, is your
> configuration a bit special in any way?

Yes, I didn't mention the most important part: the device in question
is a physical PCI device (a PCI Express graphics card) that I am
passing through to the Windows 2003 guest domain via VT-d.  (The VT-d
support generally works for me because I can pass a PCI NIC through no
problem.)  (I realize VT-d'ing a PCI-XP graphics card is
experimental...but that's what I'm doing, experimenting...).

Thanks,
Dave

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