PCI Passthrough back to dom0

l1c

I see. I suspected that line in the docs would be it.
In that case, may I suggest modifying the wording in the docs? The current wording suggests the opposite. At least it does to me. The "from" in the docs makes it read as if you are hiding all devices from dom0.

l1c

@thenot Before this thread dies, I just wanted to ask one more thing.
How would you go about only giving back one pci device back dom0?

tony

You can use the following command to display all the PCI devices being passthrough, and then just set them up again without the one you want to remove.

/opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --get-dom0 xen-pciback.hide

dthenot

Exactly as @ony said, the option --delete-dom0 just remove the option from the booting command line given to dom0, if you need to remove a device you just need to remove it from the command when calling --set-dom0. I'll take a look at the doc, you can modify it too, we are always open to contribution .

l1c

Thanks for all the help everyone. Everyone here is always very helpful
How does one go about modifying the docs?

olivierlambert

There's a link in the bottom of every documentation page

l1c

Gotcha
Will do
Thanks for the help!

lotusdew

@livierlambert : I was able to do a passthrough and assign to VM. But then I needed to detach it. I did
/opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --delete-dom0 xen-pciback.hide

then followed by

/opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --set-dom0 "xen-pciback.hide=(0000:03:00.0)(0000:03.00.1)(0000:03:00.2)"

I had subsequently assigned it to a VM. Then I

Then reboot. The first time I did it it worked fine.

However, now its not working anymore.

My boot config looks like

menuentry 'XCP-ng' {
search --label --set root root-fwztre
multiboot2 /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=7584M,max:7584M watchdog ucode=scan dom0_max_vcpus=1-16 crashkernel=256M,below=4G console=vga vga=mode-0x0311
module2 /boot/vmlinuz-4.19-xen root=LABEL=root-fwztre ro nolvm hpet=disable console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles xen-pciback.hide=(0000:03:00.0)(0000:03.00.1)(0000:03:00.2)
module2 /boot/initrd-4.19-xen.img

[16:07 xilinx-xcp ~]# xl pci-assignable-list
libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:427:libxl_device_pci_assignable_list: Looks like pciback driver not loaded

Deleting and recreating the pciback.hide is not solving the problem.

dthenot

@otusdew Your second PCI address is wrong. You have a dot instead of a colon: 0000:03.00.1 -> 0000:03:00.1.

lotusdew

@thenot THANK YOU !!