From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 7 15:43:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5DD113 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:43:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger.pau@citrix.com) Received: from SMTP.CITRIX.COM (smtp.citrix.com [66.165.176.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F384928FB for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:43:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,652,1378857600"; d="scan'208";a="71637416" Received: from accessns.citrite.net (HELO FTLPEX01CL03.citrite.net) ([10.9.154.239]) by FTLPIPO01.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP; 07 Nov 2013 15:42:31 +0000 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (10.80.16.47) by smtprelay.citrix.com (10.13.107.80) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.4; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:42:30 -0500 Message-ID: <527BB4E5.9040409@citrix.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:42:29 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hilton Day , Subject: Re: Paravirt domU and PCI Passthrough References: <527B791D.2030302@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <527B791D.2030302@citrix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-DLP: MIA1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:43:43 -0000 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.