Re: domU and a PCI network card

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:00:36PM +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
>   
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Peter A Eisch wrote:
> >     
> > > This is my first taste of Xen.  It was a little rough getting dom0 up on
> > > centos 5, but now I'm looking at netbsd-4-0 in a couple domUs.
> > >
> > > I've done the pciback hide in dom0 and it's presenting two PCI devices to
> > > my domU.  Can someone share some kernel conf goodness that represents the
> > > right way to get pci? to bind inside the domU?
> > >
> > > I'm specifically trying to get two gig-e ports (wm, two in each domU)
> > > where I'll then need to create vlan's on the nic's.
> > >
> > > This will work, right?
> > >   
> > >       
> > I think you'll find that it won't. NetBSD/Xen does not yet support the 
> > ability to utilise physical hardware and I believe that is the case even 
> >     
>
> IIRC, true for Xen 3, false for Xen 2.  I.e., our Xen 2 code supports
> this.
>   

That sounds right. IIRC as far as Xen2 goes, we support whatever Xen2 
has to offer.

I shouldn't forget Xen2 exists :) ... the pci scenario isn't covered in 
the howto unfortunately and I've never actually ventured outside of Xen3 
waters, so I'm of no use.

Sarton