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

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another point: it doesn't matter what kind of device (character, block, etc) 
if you're exporting at the PCI level.

In contrast at the virtual device level there's not a standard way of 
exporting a device, although I understand there are some standard means of 
exporting a tape backup device to the network.  If it performs OK, you may 
find it simpler to do this rather than PCI device assignment.

Cheers,
Mark

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 17:05, dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 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' ]
>
> 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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>
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