Re: Binding Devices to Windows PV Drivers

[nihal dede bagci <nihaldedebagci@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I want to understand the usage of Windows PV drivers starting with network. I understand that by using bridges, I can connect PV network driver to NIC right?

What about other Windows PV drivers defined in 

https://xenproject.org/downloads/windows-pv-drivers/windows-pv-drivers-9-series/windows-pv-drivers-9-0-0/ ?

For example how to connect console devices (/dev/ttyS)? Do I need to write driver for that?

For non-PCI devices defined in BIOS ACPI, what should be done to control them on Windows DomU?

Thanks,

 

Am 04.01.2023 um 09:31 schrieb nihal dede bagci:

> Dear Xen Users,

>

> I want to bind one of my network interfaces to the network PV driver on

> Windows Guest OS. Dom0 OS is Ubuntu. I can do PCIe passthrough but this

> is not what I want.

>

> Can you help me or share if there is such documentation related to that?

> Thanks,

If I understand your goal correctly, you need to create a networking

bridge, assign the NIC to this bridge, and assign this bridge to the

Windows DomU. If you don't assign this bridge to any other DomU or Dom0,

no other VM than the Windows DomU will use the NIC.

https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Networking

Just out of curiosity: Why don't you want to use PCI passthrough?