On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:34, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have been investigating pci pass-through for virtualized > guests and the documentation I have found seems to me to > lack a certain consistency in its example. This may be > due to my not understanding what it is trying to inform > me. > Following along in the example and working on the basis that what is reported by virsh nodedev-dumpxml pci_0000_00_03_0 is what I should use I get to the point where I try the readline command, and discover there is no such link. Proceeding past this point I detach the pci device from the host. I then edit the guest config file as given in the example only to discover that the changes are not saved. it reported that the configuration was edted by opening the configuration in virtsh edit a second time shows that the added <hostdev></hostdev> section was not saved. Perhaps this is because the example provides no context as to where it is nested within the xml file and my placing it directly within the <domain> </domain> tags is invalid. Further, the requirement to set setsebool -P virt_manage_sysfs 1 cannot be met since an SELinux boolean of that name does not exist (apparently it was renamed to virt_use_nfs). The reference I am using is found at: http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel6/rhel_6_virtualization/rhel_6_virtualization_chap-Virtualization-PCI_passthrough.html However, I do not think that I can recommend it based on my experience. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3