Re: PCI-Passthrough with CloudStack (Improved)

2013-06-20 Thread Pawit Pornkitprasan
Hi Paul, I think that is more or less dependent on the hardware quirks. For my case I only had to add intel_iommu=on to the kernel cmdline to get PCI Passthrough working. An additional cmdline, pci=nocrs, was needed to get SR-IOV mode of the Mellanox ConnectX-2 card working. Best Regards, Pawit

RE: PCI-Passthrough with CloudStack (Improved)

2013-06-20 Thread Paul Angus
riginal Message- From: Pawit Pornkitprasan [mailto:p.pa...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 June 2013 05:38 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: Ryousei Takano; Pawit Pornkitprasan Subject: Re: PCI-Passthrough with CloudStack (Improved) Hi, I've forgot to describe the detach-attach mechanism, so I'll d

Re: PCI-Passthrough with CloudStack (Improved)

2013-06-19 Thread Pawit Pornkitprasan
Hi, I've forgot to describe the detach-attach mechanism, so I'll describe it in this reply. PCI Device detach is done automatically by the agent when a MigrateCommand is processed. In KVM case, the server gets a list of attached PCI devices from libvirt's XML and detach very device. If detach is