LMCE on Xen (FC 7): How to use pciback

[daballiemo]

Hi guys,

have been fooling around with LCME for the past two months or so, but I am getting close to a working system  Now that audio and video is working on the MD's I would like to add the PVR card (Hauppauge PVR 150) to the DomU. I know I have to use pciback to free the assignment of the card to Dom0 but all my "googling" could not resolve the issue that pciback is not present in my Xen kernel. Not being a complete Tux guru I hope someone is around and has done this before 
If you need any further info pleaze let me know....

Grtz

DBM

[hari]

Hi guys,

have been fooling around with LCME for the past two months or so, but I am getting close to a working system  Now that audio and video is working on the MD's I would like to add the PVR card (Hauppauge PVR 150) to the DomU. I know I have to use pciback to free the assignment of the card to Dom0 but all my "googling" could not resolve the issue that pciback is not present in my Xen kernel. Not being a complete Tux guru I hope someone is around and has done this before 
If you need any further info pleaze let me know....

Grtz

DBM

hmm, maybe it's compiled in. Where is your xen kernel from?
But I assume you will have more headache. As far as i know (may be outdated information) xen 3 is not able to assign pci devices to fully virtualized guests. If you use a domU kernel the modules from the pluto package won't fit. I think you have to compile the pvr drivers yourself.

best regards,
Hari

[daballiemo]

Kernels are part of Fedora Core 7 (XEN), not customized
[root@bigbear ~]# uname -r
2.6.21-6.fc7xen

So you think I might have a problem when I am able to export the slots to the backend? Hmmm, this isn't making things easier. I refuse to run LCME as my base system, would run into LVM problems. Running it as a VM makes it easier not having to fool around with my stable eviroment. Are there any other options beside Xen to virtualize LCME (Virtual Box) and have PCI access in the VM?

[hari]

Kernels are part of Fedora Core 7 (XEN), not customized
[root@bigbear ~]# uname -r
2.6.21-6.fc7xen

So you think I might have a problem when I am able to export the slots to the backend? Hmmm, this isn't making things easier. I refuse to run LCME as my base system, would run into LVM problems. Running it as a VM makes it easier not having to fool around with my stable eviroment. Are there any other options beside Xen to virtualize LCME (Virtual Box) and have PCI access in the VM?

Maybe you can put the pci card in a media director?

[daballiemo]

Also a solution but not a very green one I'll have a go anyway, but I will continue my quest

[tkmedia]

An hd homerun might work good in this configuration not sure if a SD version is available from someone else, or perhaps usb??

[pascal]

As I'm a Debain user and not aware of Fedora I do not know, but isn't pciback available on every XEN system. As I'm quite new to XEN MythTV and LinuxMCE I cannot give you qualified advises, but have you add pciback.hide(xx:xx.x) to grub menu.lst and pci option to your xen domU config?

As I'm also interested in running LinuxMCE in a domU (i will not do anything else then domU's, no phyical machines anymore), how have you achived the installation? To you have some info's (docu's etc.)?

[daballiemo]

Pascal,

i'm still working on things. Currently trying to decide to take it further with FC8 (but still have no pci hide garantee) or Ubuntu (work for me with a network card) first have to move my server to another system (website etc) after that I can build a new one from scratch using either. So no manual yet