Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:42:29 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Hilton Day <hilton.day@gmail.com>, <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Paravirt domU and PCI Passthrough Message-ID: <527BB4E5.9040409@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <527B791D.2030302@citrix.com> References: <CABomu8P88ZfJvO7sPd9-L6Thcaoxj7WgjUKuud3VU40D6h1C9w@mail.gmail.com> <527B791D.2030302@citrix.com>
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On 07/11/13 12:27, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 05/11/13 09:43, Hilton Day wrote: >> Hi - firstly a warning. While I've been running Xen on Linux for about 6 >> years, I've only just started to scratch the surface of freeBSD. >> >> I just compiled a (working) paravirt kernel for freeBSD 8.3 (actually for >> pfSense firewall), and have succeeded in running it with a couple of >> virtual interfaces. However, I've struck a couple of limitations: >> >> 1. Seems to be no support for the Xen pcifront to enable pci passthrough >> to paravirt domUs? > > No, there's no pcifrontend, so right now it's not possible to use i386 > PV guests with pci-passthrough. This is not completely true, there's a pcifront driver, but it's not included in the i386 PV build (and it seems like it never was included), so my guess is that it is probably broken or incomplete.
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