Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] pci passthrough and Xenserver

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please don't cross-post.

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 01:29 +0000, Ritu kaur wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I had additional questions(I re-read the Assign_hardware...), and I
> don't quite follow it completely. The config given is for dom0, it
> doesn't have any information as to what domU will get access to this
> pci device? Do I need to change config in domU as well, document
> doesn't say anything about it. Furthermore, in the document I see
> references to "xm pci-list-assignable-devices" cli's, however, XCP
> comes with xe tool-stack, does it come with similar pci commands? I am
> yet to install XCP, but wanted to check.

With XenAPI you can set the VM.other-config:pci key to a comma separated
list of "<bus>/<bdf>" where bus should always be 0 and <bdf> is the
bus-device-function as seen in domain 0. For example to pass device
0000:07:10.0 through to a guest try:

xe vm-param-set uuid=<uuid> other-config:pci=0000:07:10.0

You may need to manually load the pciback module first.

Ian.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ritu kaur <ritu.kaur.us@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I did go through  vmops.ml and I really didn't get much
>         information on what config file it is reading or what changes
>         are needed. I looked at
>         
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_module
>  from the link given by Dullor, not sure whether those changes suffice XCP 
> for pci passthrough hence thought of checking. Any inputs?
>         
>         Thanks
>         
>         On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, James Troup
>         <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         
>         
>                 No PCI passthrough for XenServer AFAIK.
>                 You need XCP for that and then it is still very
>                 experimental with NO documentation except what is in
>                 the code.
>                 Line 483+
>                 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xapi/xen-api.hg?file/a8decf9d3bee/ocaml/xapi/vmops.ml
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: "Ritu kaur" <ritu.kaur.us@xxxxxxxxx>
>                 To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>                 xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>                 Sent: Tuesday, 9 March, 2010 6:29:49 AM
>                 Subject: [Xen-users] pci passthrough and Xenserver
>                 
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 We are running Citrix Xenserver 5.5(dom0) and PV
>                 guests(domU). Since VT-d support is not required for
>                 PV guests has anyone tried pci passthrough with Citrix
>                 Xenserver? If yes what config file changes are
>                 required in domU and dom0? I looked at Citrix forums
>                 and xen.org/xen-users archives, not getting useful
>                 information from it. Inputs much appreciated.
>                 
>                 Thanks
>                 
>                 
>                 
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