I am running Xen 4.2 with the XL toolstack on Arch Linux. I have a set of PCI devices that I am trying to hide. From the command line I can hide the devices with
# xl pci-assignable-add 01:00.0
# xl pci-assignable-add 01:00.1
# xl pci-assignable-add 02:00.0
# xl pci-assignable-add 03:00.0
and confirm they are hidden with
# xl pci-assignable-list
I wanted to automate this so I created a file called /etc/modprobe.d/pcihide.conf and included
options xen-pciback hide=(01:00.0)(01.00.1)(02:00.0)(03:00.0)
When I reboot only some of the devices are hidden. Looking in dmesg and xl dmesg I can see entries for the devices that are successfully hidden, but no obvious entries for the devices that are not hidden. If I remove the /etc/modprobe.d/pcihide.conf file and reboot, no devices are hidden, so the file is getting loaded and I am able to hide some devices with this method.
I am unable to hide a built in SATA controller, two built in USB 2.0 controllers, two built in USB 3.0 controllers, and an add on SATA card with the modprobe.d file. I am able to hide two add on video cards(with HDMI audio) and a TV tuner card with the modprobe.d file. I can hide all the devices with xl pci-assignable-add.
Is using a modprobe.d file the right way to hide PCI devices on boot? If so, I know this isn’t a lot to work with, but where should I be looking for information about what is going wrong?
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