Re: [Xen-devel] PCI Passthrough question (xm->xl migration in Xen 4.2.2)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

create ^
title it xl does not support specifying virtual function for passthrough device
thanks

On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 14:29 -0700, Saurabh Mishra wrote:
> In XM toolchain, we use to put pci = [ '0000:07:11.6=0@1a' ] but looks
> like in XL toolchain there is no way to specify function in the guest.

The code is a bit confusing, but that does appear to be the case. libxl
seems to have some degree of support but I can't see any code in xl (or
the libxlu helper library function which parses the PCI options) that
would support the =N@M syntax.

Given the lack of xl support there's a good chance that the libxl
support is relatively untested.

> Kindly let me know.
> 
> 
> XM  - pci = [ '0000:07:11.6=0@1a' ]
> XL   - pci = [ '0000:07:11.6@1a' ]
> 
> 
> In the guest VM we see that PCI device is getting 0 function in both
> the cases however, it may not work the same way in the future.

Do you happen to know (or can you easily do the experiment to find out)
what happens with '0000:07:11.6@1a' on xm? Does the guest see function 0
or function 6? If it is 0 then I think we can safely say xl will not
change, but if it is 6 we'll have to have a think...

Ian.



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