RE: [Xen-users] Yet Another PCI passthrough question

["Beasley, Julien" <Julien.Beasley@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much, James, that worked! I'm going to post exactly what I did 
for future people that encounter the same problem.

// first check that nothing shows in lsmod
# lsmod | grep pciback
# 

// now type modprobe
# modprobe pciback

// now try the lsmod again. Note I had to wait a minute or so.. at first 
nothing was showing up
# lsmod | grep pciback
pciback                50301  0 
xenbus_be               4261  5 pciback,usbbk,netbk,blkbk,blktap

// now do the step James suggested
# echo -n "0000:04:00.0" > "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/new_slot"

# echo -n "0000:04:00.0" > "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind"

// check that lspci shows pciback in use
# lspci -v
04:00.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 671d
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1b2a
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 24
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256M]
        Memory at fe6e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K]
        I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fe6c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 
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        Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
        Kernel driver in use: pciback


// so far this works, and I can see the kernel driver in pciback. Good!

// Xen wiki says to check this and not proceed if empty
# xm pci-list-assignable-devices

// that was still empty... but let's keep going anyways


// edit the config to pass the pci device
# vi /etc/xen/vm/windowsvistax64
...
pci= [ '04:00.0' ]


// check that nothing is assigned to the pci list for that VM
# xm pci-list windowsvistax64

// now create the VM
# xm create windowsvistax64

// checkt hat something is assigned to the vm now
xm pci-list windowsvistax64
VSlt VFn domain bus  slot func
0x05 0x0 0x0000 0x04 0x00 0x0


// then I opened the VM graphics console, and it indeed saw my card. Thank you 
James for your help!

Julien

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