Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-08 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, February 6, 2012 18:05, Ken Bass wrote: Take a look at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo Two things in particular about PCI passthrough: - Only devices with FLR capabilities are supported. - Some motherboards are buggy. They advertised that they support Vt-d but do not

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-06 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, February 4, 2012 10:39, Nenad Opsenica wrote: On 02/03/2012 05:32 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: Where does this go inside the rest of the guest configuration? virt-manager GUI places PCI device pass-through inside devices ...

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-06 Thread Ken Bass
Take a look at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo Two things in particular about PCI passthrough: - Only devices with FLR capabilities are supported. - Some motherboards are buggy. They advertised that they support Vt-d but do not correctly handle it (those with a broken ACPI DMAR

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-04 Thread Nenad Opsenica
On 02/03/2012 05:32 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: Where does this go inside the rest of the guest configuration? virt-manager GUI places PCI device pass-through inside devices ... /devices: devices emulator/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm/emulator disk type='file' device='cdrom' driver name='qemu'

[CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-03 Thread James B. Byrne
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. What I wish to do is to configure a pci multi-port serial i/o

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up a pci passthrough device

2012-02-03 Thread James B. Byrne
Evidently I should be using http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/chap-Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide-PCI_Assignment.html Which I had looked for but google apparently does