Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0

Himanshu Raj
2005-09-26T00:01:12Z

I am not sure about this. I think you can allocate pci devices to other
domains using pci = ... in domain config file, no? Of course it has to
be a privileged domain.

-Himanshu
Ron Arts wrote:
>
>
> Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 11:32 +0200, Ron Arts wrote:
>>
>>> I personally bumped into the 3.0 limitation that you can''t
>>> allocate PCI devices to other domains, so I had to go back
>>> to 2.0.
>>>
>>> Is there a list somewhere that gives detailed differences
>>> between 2.0 and 3.0?
>>>
>>> Ron
>>
>>
>> Is their a bug open on this?
>>
>
> Uhm, I didn''t create one, because there is a mail from
> Ian Pratt where he basically said: um, yeah we are aware
> of that, but nobody has had the time to fix it yet.
> Apparently an API needs to be create to let domains
> communicate with dom0 to request PCI devices, and
> dom0 needs to have some way to prevent his own drivers
> from loading.
>
> Ron
>
>> Regards,
>> Ted
>>
>>
>
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