On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:55:04PM -0700, snowcrash+xen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This isn't what you'll want to hear but... > > > > To be perfectly honest, it is not really a high priority. Our priorities > > are getting the DomU stuff merged upstream & working reliably and continuing > > the Dom0 work, since those impact every single user of Xen. Unfortunately > > PCI pasthrough is quite a niche userbase, so its hard to justify work on it > > in the short term given limited resources. If someone has skills & time to > > volunteer to work on the PCI passthrough stuff..... > > ouch! a large %age of the boxes we deploy have a firewall/DomU & and > a NAS/Domu, each with dedicated, pass'd-thru NICs. without passthru, > performance is lousy. > > so, iiuc "not really a high priority", i guess -- short of 'growing' > someone with the skills -- we're hosed. > > the unfortunate irony is we *moved* to Fedora because the passthru > support in RHEL was flaky, and Fedora was touted as "the right way to > get it". regressing a working feature that differentiates the distro > would not have been my first choice ... majority, or otherwise. PCI passthrough *is* supported in RHEL-5 Xen kernels. There was a bug in the RHEL-5.1 Dom0 userspace, but that is fixed in 5.2. AFAIK, any RHEL-5.x guest supports PCI passthrough. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
