<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000'><br>----- "Jeppe N. Madsen" <jeppe@ingolfs.dk> wrote:
<br>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Gerald Brandt wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hi, <br>> > <br>> > I've been trying to set up a Xen DomU for my mythbackend, but I'm<br>> > having issues with pci passthrough. I know some people here have<br>> > done it.<br>> <br>> Yep<br>> <br>> > <br>> > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit as Dom0, and Mythbuntu 8.10 as the<br>> > Domu.<br>> > <br>> > What configurations are you using as the OS for Dom0, and are you<br>> > passing through (using pciback.hide) a PVR150 card?<br>> <br>> I'm using Debian etch for both dom0 & domu. Kernel is<br>> 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64, xen is xen-hypervisor 3.0.3-0-4. Works fine. I'm<br>> passing a Nova-T 500 card.<br>> <br>> <br>> This is my kernel param for dom0:<br>> <br>> module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64<br>> root=/dev/mapper/VGSystem-LVdom0 ro console=tty0<br>> pciback.hide=(01:09.0)(01:09.1)(01:09.2)<br>> <br>> And the domu cfg:<br>> <br>> pci = ['01:09.0','01:09.1','01:09.2']<br>> <br>> It's been about 8 months since I've set this up (and has run fine<br>> since :-)) but I seem to recall that there were issues with pci<br>> passthrough and (some) xen versions later than 3.03. But as I said, I<br>> may be wrong.<br>> <br>> I would like to upgrade to Xen 3.3 to get the power management,<br>> but I'm a little hesitant since everything works now. But this thread<br>> seem to indicate that just building a new hypervisor would work with<br>> my setup (don't know if I'll get the benefits though)<br>> <br>> http://www.nabble.com/Xen-3.3-hypervisor-with-stock-dom0-kernel-from-Debian-Etch--td19646268.html<br>> <br>> /Jeppe<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br>><br><br>Ok, cool. I'll take a look at Debian. It's an apt based distro, right? I see it comes on 3 DVD's, so I really need to download the all? I'm assuming that you are running Debian 4?<br><br>Could you send me the output from lspci?<br><br>Gerald<br><br></div></body></html>