Re: [Xen-devel] LSI SAS2008 Option Rom Failure

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 12:31 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > On 19/07/12 12:07, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:57 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > >> On 19/07/12 08:22, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > >>> David also previous tried our branch of upstream qemu and had problems
> > >>> there too -- I thought we'd backported the basic PCI passthrough support
> > >>> but he was seeing
> > >>>           libxl: error: libxl_qmp.c:288:qmp_handle_error_response:
> > >>>           received an
> > >>>           error message from QMP server: Parameter 'driver' expects a
> > >>>           driver
> > >>>           name
> > >>> (see upthread for more details)
> > >>
> > >> This is because the pci passthrough is not compiled in QEMU. I could
> > >> maybe try to improve this error message.
> > >
> > > Should this be enabled in our build system and/or referenced in the
> > > wiki?
> > 
> > This should not be needed as it is enable by default if possible. But I 
> > don't know what went wrong here :(.
> 
> Missing dependency? e.g. libpci-devel?
> 
> > Otherwise, to be sure that pci passthrough is compiled in, use the 
> > --enable-xen-pci-passthrough configure option.
> 
> We should enable this option in our build system so that we get a
> consistent set of features not dependent on the vagaries of the
> underlying system. If there are libraries which we require we should
> check for them in out configure script.

I didn't backport pci passthrough to qemu-upstream-unstable so that
option wouldn't be available there

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