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Re: [Xen-users] Intel VT-d Support

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Igor Chubin wrote:

On Mi, Mär 05, 2008 at 02:58:52 +0200, Alexander Piavka wrote:
I use HP Compac dc7800 [1] fom my experiments.
I know that this hw (hw with VT-d support) is very rare,
so as far I can touch it now with my own hands, I want to try VT-d on it.


[1] 
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-64287-321860-3328898-3459241.htm

 Hi Igor,
Does xen 3.1 vanilla kernel 2.6.18 work ok on this hardware,
or you had to use some ubuntu or fedora xen kernel?

Vanilla kernel works fine
and Debian GNU/Linux (2.6.18) works fine.

Just one thing:
to boot kernel correctly I must
specify

pci=nommconf

At least it's better than all-generic-ide pci=nommconf irqpoll which i had to specifiy with ICH9 chipset to boot non xen 2.6.18 kernels, and still it it did not work with xen vanilla kernel 2.6.18, the only
xen enabled kernel which reasonably worked with ICH9 chipset was from ubuntu.

Another question, as i understand with VT-d and pci passthrough enabled in the xen-3.2 kernel it should be possible to give HVM domU direct & priviliged access to the whole pci disk controller. But is it possible to give HVM domU direct & priviliged access only to specific hard disk attached to this disk controller?

 Thanks
 Alex


as kernel command line argument.


 Thanks
 Alex

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WBR, i.m.chubin
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