Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:
>   
>> Hi list and manuel :)
>>
>> I'd like to know if there is a specific reason (expect memory footprint)
>> why the domU-kernels don't have 
>> pci*            at hypervisor? bus ? 
>>     
>
> The reason is memory footprint. If you wnty lots of domains on a system you
> won't have much ram per domain. Adding all PCI drivers will nearly double
> the size of the kernel. Also, the common case is a domain without PCI access.
>   
If you don't want to build your own kernel, you can just use a dom0 
kernel on a domU, and it will have PCI support.
I would recommend, though, building a custom kernel to avoid wasting 
resources ;)