On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 02:44:54AM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to pass a physical network interface through to a domU. > > This seems to be impossible because the way xen wants to do it is > incompatible with the way centos wants to do it. Huh? > > I followed documentation on http://www.xen-support.com/?p=151 and tried > booting with 'pciback.permissive pciback.hide=(06:00.0)'. This gives a > hint in dmesg "kernel: xen-pciback: backend is vpci", and the device is > still visible in dom0. So this obviously doesn't work. The device should be visible in the dom0 - even when it is for passthrough. But irrespective of that - the steps mentioned there are out of date. The correct option should be 'xen-pciback.hide=(06:00.0) xen-pciback.permissive=1' > > Following http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough: which is mentioned in that link. > > > [root at heimdall ~]# xl pci-assignable-add 06:00.0 > xend is running, which may cause unpredictable results when using > this xl command. Please shut down xend before continuing. > > (This check can be overridden with the -f option.) > [root at heimdall ~]# > > > There doesn't seem to be any documentation about what xend does or is > for and how to pass a physical network interface through with it. Did you just try using the same parameter but replace 'xl' with 'xm'? > > I'm starting to think that using centos for a server os is an extremely > bad choice because nothing works. It's not like a Linux distribution > but like a mess of pieces from several unrelated puzzles thrown together > randomly. > > > -- > Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt