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[Xen-users] Does hardware VMX kill hardware passthrough to non-VMX domai

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Subject: [Xen-users] Does hardware VMX kill hardware passthrough to non-VMX domains?
From: "George Styles" <ripnetuk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:27:56 +0100
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Hi,

I have Xen3 (testing from last week), running 3 'normal' Xen domains
(FC4 / FC4 / FC5) with xen-ified kernels (ie, non VMX).

One of these runs MythTV and so has hardware passthrough setup for my
2 dvb cards. This works fine in itself.

However, when I start a Windows XP virtual machine (using the VMX
feature), the DVB cards seem to stop working in the non-vmx domain.

I have not done enough tests to be 100% sure this is the case (its
happened 3 times, each time just after I start the Windows domain,
although not immediately after, within hours). At the moment, all I
have estabished is that the DVB cards stop giving me data

Before I spend a lot of time investigating this, is there any issue
with using hardware passthrough on a non-VMX domain AND runnign a
seperate VMX domain at the same time?

Should I be playing with NOACPI etc? should I have the passthrough set
to permissive or non permissive (wtf?)

thanks

george

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