Re: [Xen-users] PCI Passthrough of SATA Controllers

[Thomas Garcia <thomas.j.garcia1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:42:06PM -0700, Thomas Garcia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup a driver domain, but I'm having problems with PCI
> passthrough (just of the disk controller; network devices passthrough
> fine). When I run "xl pci-assignable-add 00:1f.2" (00:1f.2 is my SATA
> controller), I get a series of I/O errors, followed by the filesystem being
> remounted as read-only. Then when I try to create the driver domain, I get
> a "failed to read config file" error. What is the proper way to create a
> disk driver domain? I'm using Debian Jessie for my Dom0 and DomUs, and I'm
> using pvgrub as a bootloader.

IMHO, it looks like the SATA controller that you are trying to passthrough
is already used by Dom0?

The Debian documentation is not very clear [0], so I can't tell you the
exact runes that you need to use, but I would look into using the
xen-pciback.hide kernel command line in order to hide the devices on boot
rather than at run time. So you will have to add:

xen-pciback.hide=(00:1f.2)

To your kernel commnad line. Also note that [0] mentions that you might need
to rebuild your initramfs depending on your kernel/Debian version.

Roger.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Other_configuration_tweaks

Yes, the controller was already in use by Dom0. Now I've setup Dom0 so it doesn't use the controller (using initramfs as my only filesystem), but I'm having troubles getting xenconsoled to work; whenever I start it I get the error messages:

FATAL: Failed to initialize dom0 state: Invalid argument

xenconsoled: xenstore watch on @introduceDomain fails.

And then in xl dmesg:

(XEN) event_channel.c:271:d0 EVTCHNOP failure: domain 0, error -22

Any idea what is causing these errors, or what I can do to diagnose them? I'm guessing it has to do with some file I forgot to put in initramfs, seeing as xenconsoled runs fine when I use the controller. I've already added /usr/lib/xen-4.4 and /usr/lib/xen-common to initramfs.

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