Subject: Re: Exporting PCI devices to unpriviledged domains.
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
List: port-xen
Date: 08/14/2005 23:38:48
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:19:56AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:16:20 +0100
> Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm currently attempting to export my wireless network card (suppoted
> > by ral(4)) to an unpriviledged Xen domain running under NetBSD, with
> > Linux as Domain 0. So, what I've done is built a XenU kernel with
> > DOM0OPS defined, and adding appropriate attachments for pci busses,
> > and the card itself.
> You shouldn't use DOM0OPS in unpriviligied domains, that's what are you
> using?
Indeed--that's what I thought. However, I found this line in
/usr/src/sys/arch/xen/conf/files.xen.
file arch/xen/xen/pci_machdep.c hypervisor & dom0ops
> Have you tried just booting the XenU kernel?
>
Yeah, that boots fine. However, it doesn't have pci support.
--
Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
'What I really want is "apt-get smite"'
--Rob Partington <http://rjp.frottage.org>