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Re: domU and a PCI network card



On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:00:36PM +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter A Eisch wrote:
>> This is my first taste of Xen.  It was a little rough getting dom0 up on
>> centos 5, but now I'm looking at netbsd-4-0 in a couple domUs.
>>
>> I've done the pciback hide in dom0 and it's presenting two PCI devices to
>> my domU.  Can someone share some kernel conf goodness that represents the
>> right way to get pci? to bind inside the domU?
>>
>> I'm specifically trying to get two gig-e ports (wm, two in each domU)
>> where I'll then need to create vlan's on the nic's.
>>
>> This will work, right?
>>   
>
> I think you'll find that it won't. NetBSD/Xen does not yet support the 
> ability to utilise physical hardware and I believe that is the case even 

IIRC, true for Xen 3, false for Xen 2.  I.e., our Xen 2 code supports
this.

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"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
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