[Fedora-xen] Is pci-pasthrough enabled for F9 DomU?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:08:38PM -0700, snowcrash+xen at gmail.com wrote:
> i've F8 as Dom0.
> 
> for F8 DomU, pci-passthru devices are visible via lspci *in* DomU.
> 
> for a new install of F9 DomU, lcpci is (empty).
> 
> there was discussion that PCI-PassThrough might not make it into F9,
> 
>  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-12/msg00454.html
>   "> F9 may well end up lacking features compared to Xen in Fedora 8 &
> earlier (eg no
>    > PCI device passthrough, or CPU hotplug)"
> 
> but release notes,
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops#head-e15c9305e8d715da9d904a1a99e658409cf12929
> 
> make no mention one way or other.
> 
> *is* pci-passthru known/supposed to work in F9 DomU?

No.  Only  block, network and framebuffer devices were implemented in 
the F9 DomU kernel.

Regards,
Dan.
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