On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 21:29 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to dedicate a number of NICs on a Xen setup to the guest OS. > It was advised (in the -users list) that I use the pciback.hide option > to hide the NICs from the host. > > I tried adding the pciback.hide command line option to the Xen0 kernel > and got nothing. (Unknown boot option `pciback.hide=(xx:xx.x)': > ignoring) > After sifting through the kernel configuration I noticed that all FC5 > xen kernels (including latest -testing) disable the PCIBACK support. > (CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND and CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND) > > Am I right? Do I need to enable these two to get pciback.hide working? > Or am I barking at the wrong tree? > > Thanks, > Gilboa > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188771 There are some issues with emabling it, including security considerations and it also breaks TCP checksums. The latter can be fixed by running `ethtool -K eth0 tx off` -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
