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Re: [Xen-users] Xen driver domain...character device?



> Does anyone know if it is possible to give a guest domain access to
> character device hardware such as a SCSI tape drive (/dev/st0 | /dev/nst0)?
>  I have recompiled the guest xenU kernel with hardware access and declared
> the pci SCSI card in the config file directive as follows:
> pci      = [ '4,3,0' ]

Did you also ignore the device in dom0 (e.g. by using "physdev_dom0_hide=" on 
the Xen command line or by not compiling the driver into dom0)?  Don't want 
the two domains to fight...

Try running lspci in the guest and see what it does...

Cheers,
Mark

> The log file when started reports:
> [2005-11-01 17:24:57 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1178) Creating pci device
> dom=7 bus=4 dev=3 func=0
>
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