Re: [Xen-users] CentOS/Xen PCI pass-through

["Phillip Bennett" <phillip@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

 

I have been trying to get PCI Passthrough working for *MONTHS* now. 

 

Finally, when I stopped trying, I came across the following page.  http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17605.html

 

In the bottom half are the best instructions I've seen so far for getting PCI Passthrough to work yet.  It not only explains it better than most places, but it allows you to see and understand what is actually going on during the process.  I now have successfully passed through a network card and a video card to a DomU machine.  (I've yet to get the video card to actually work, but it's in the PCI list now)

 

Hope this helps,

Phil.

----- Original Message -----

From: Rob Greene

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 4:33 AM

Subject: [Xen-users] CentOS/Xen PCI pass-through

Is PCI pass-through available in the "standard" CentOS 5.1 kernel?  From the "xm info" command, I see the major.minor version of Xen is 3.1, so I'm assuming it is and that I'm missing something basic.

I've tried using "pciback.hide=(...)" in grub.conf, but after getting an error message about it not being valid, I realized that pciback is a module, so it's not available.

So, I tried it in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that apparently didn't work either.  I also tried this (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_module?highlight=%28pci%29) and it seemed to work -- I at least got a message about the pciback grabbing the device.  I do, however, still see the device when I do a "lspci", but I'm not certain if that is normal or not.

I added the "pci = [ ... ]" in my Xen domU config file but am not seeing the device in lspci (which is totally empty), and am not sure what is up.  Since I don't have the "xm" commands in the domU, I'm not sure what to do.

I'd like to pass in my video capture devices into a domU and get Myth or Sage running in one of my domU's.  Base OS is CentOS 5.1 x86_64 for sheer stability and patchability; that way the domU can be tweaked/upgraded/rebuilt without impacting anything else.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!
-Rob

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