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Re: [Xen-users] Success Story: debian lenny 64bit, xen 4.0, pv_ops 2.6.31.13, VT-d


  • To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
  • From: chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:30:21 -0400
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You should update the vtd howto with that motherboard, its not that
common to see non intel boards that actually work in my experience :)

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nope, just an old habit. I didn't realize it had changed. So iommu=1
> should be enough by itself? I was also curious where it says vt-d for
> pv guests disabled? You cant have it for both hvm and pv at the same
> time?
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:28:51PM -0400, chris wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have seen quite a bit of posts regarding Xen 4.0 on debian/ubuntu. I
>>> just wanted to report that my first Xen4 install went great. I am
>>> running a ASUS Z8NA-D6 Dual LGA1366 Motherboard with two Xeon 5520's,
>>> 24GB ram, software raid-1. Everything seems to be working very well
>>> even VT-d which is surprising :) Below is some output of my first
>>> successful boot:
>>>
>>
>> Good to hear it works!
>>
>>> xm info
>>> http://pastebin.com/6e5EG2Tv
>>>
>>> xm dmesg
>>> http://pastebin.com/8vwhkkph
>>>
>>
>> (XEN) Command line: vtd=1 iommu=1 dom0_mem=512M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
>>
>> "vtd=1" is old/obsolete parameter, it's not used anymore.
>> Also "iommu=1" is the default in Xen 4.0.0, so that's not needed either :)
>>
>> "iommu=verbose" can be used to get more debugging output,
>> especially if IO virtualization doesn't get enabled.
>>
>>> dom0 dmesg
>>> http://pastebin.com/RDDVYNgK
>>>
>>> I used the wiki page http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0 as a
>>> guide and everything went well.
>>>
>>
>> Was vtd=1 mentioned somewhere there?
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>>
>

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