Re: problems exporting PCI devices to domU

[Ceri Storey <cez%necrofish.org.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 12:55:48AM +0200, Karl Janmar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have got xen working on my machine and I'm able to run both Linux and netbsd
> as a domU.
> For Linux I use a physical disk and for netbsd I use a file together with vnd,
> that seems working pretty well.
> 
> But when I try to give my netbsd domU access to a PCI device it fail. I have
> read the xen/howto instructions on www.netbsd.org and also some post about
> exporting PCI devices, but I still doesn't get it working.
> 
> I have hidden the PCI device from my dom0 and now I won't see the device when 
> I
> list the PCI bus with pcictl.

Could you include the output of pcictl from before you hid the device?

> Prepared my domU kernel with the extra lines in the kernel config to enable 
> the
> PCI bus (from www.netbsd.org xen/howto).
> Then I add a "pci = ['3,13,0']" line to the xen config.
> After that when I do "xm create netbsd" I get this:
> Using config file "/etc/xen/netbsd".
> Error: Error creating domain: (19, 'Operation not supported by device')

It sounds like you're attempting to export something that Xen can't
really export. 
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