Bug 523638

Summary:	[RHEL6 Xen]: Support PV PCI passthrough?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	drjones, jane.lv, jvillalo, luyu, pasik, pbonzini, xen-maint, yuzhang
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Description Chris Lalancette 2009-09-16 09:34:48 UTC

Description of problem:
RHEL-5 Xen domU currently supports the ability to passthrough a PCI device to a paravirtualized guest.  While this isn't secure, it does have uses.  Upstream LKML domU support does not currently support this mode.  Should we port this over?

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2009-09-16 09:36:55 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 3 Pasi Karkkainen 2010-11-19 08:53:20 UTC

xen-pcifront support for PCI passthrough to PV domU is now included in the upstream 2.6.37 kernel.

It would be very welcome addition for the el6 kernel!

Comment 4 Paolo Bonzini 2011-01-05 10:00:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 611423 ***