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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 12:48 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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

Aha, I thought you had, nevermind then.



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