[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.4.3and CentOS PCIback

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 2:44:38 AM, you wrote:

>  Hey Sander,

> Thanks.

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Sander Eikelenboom 
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>> Hello David,
>>
>> My suggestions would be:
>> - use pciback.hide=(03:01.0) option on the kernel line in your bootloader,
>> to seize the device, so dom0 never initializes it.
>>

> you mean "pciback.hide=(03:01.0)" going into Dom0 kernel line and on which
> one:

On the  "module    /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5xen ro root=/dev/gw/root 
console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen nomodeset " one.

(if you are going to use a pvops kernel in the future it will have to change to 
xen-pciback.hide=(03:01.0) BTW)


> My grub.conf looks like this:

> title     CentOS (2.6.18-194.17.4.el5xen)
> root      (hd0,0)
> kernel    /xen.gz-3.4.3 dom0_mem=1024M physdev_dom0_hide=(03:01.0)
> iommu=verbose loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
> module    /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5xen ro root=/dev/gw/root console=hvc0
> earlyprintk=xen nomodeset
> module    /initrd-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5xen.img

> - Why do you use the "@1" in your domU config and not just pci=['03:01.0']
>>  ?
>>

> Well thst' nothing, I was reading on XEN's pvops kernel docs that you can
> arbitrarily assign the device to a specific virtual slot.


>> - I personally always use the passthrough option for pciback when compiling
>> the dom0 kernel, but i don't think that matters much, although perhaps not
>> everything plays nice with a device on 0000:00:00.0


> Well I havrn't messed up with kernel compilation, I would like pv_ops kernel
> so I played a bit with that but not with this 2.6.18, would have to do some
> research on it.

> I also removed the @ from the pci=('') line,

> Thanks for the help and I'll do as you say but if you or someone has any
> other insight on this it'd be nice to hear it

> Thanks.

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