From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tej Subject: Re: VT-d HowTo Update Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:58:23 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20090421073134.GA14639@verge.net.au> <23156969.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090421231333.GG12796@verge.net.au> <20090422010328.GA24883@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090422010328.GA24883@verge.net.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Simon Horman Cc: Leonard Michelet , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:13:33AM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:11:00AM -0700, Leonard Michelet wrote: >> > >> > Hi, Simon >> > I've read it, and it's much more complete than before. Thanks a lot. >> > Beside, you don't write about the library PCI devel that you need when= you >> > compile Xen to enable PCI passtrought, and so, the use of VT-d. Debian >> > package is libpci_dev. >> > Is this library still necessary to use VT-d? If yes, shouldn't you wri= te >> > about it in this wiki page? >> > >From my experience, I lost some times before finding that I had to co= mpil >> > with this lib. >> >> Yes, I lost some time due to that too, and it is neccessary. >> >> I tried to avoid discussing compilation issues as its a bit of a can of >> worms because they are usually very dependant on the system in use. >> But this probably is worth a mention. > > I have updated the HowTo with some information on this. > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo > Some typo i guess. >>From VTdHowTo: "VT-d Device Hot-Unplug VT-d hot-unplug refers to detaching a pass-through device from a running HVM domain. The device may have been attached using boot-time VT-d device pass-through or VT-d device hot-plug. xm's pci-attach command is used to perform hot-unplug." ^^^^^ should be detach right? > -- > Simon Horman > =A0VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Satellite Lab in Sydney, Australia > =A0H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0W: www.valinux.co.j= p/en > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >