[Fedora-xen] No pcifront in F10?

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Tue Oct 12 23:42:05 UTC 2010


On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Andy Burns wrote:

> On 4 May 2009 19:51, Andy Burns <fedora.lists at burns.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> 2009/5/1 Jim Lutz <jelutz at config.com>:
>>
>>> a CentOS 5.3 Dom0 with Xen 3.1.2, some PV CentOS DomU's with
>>> PCI passthrough (same versions), and I'm
>>> trying to implement a F10 DomU with PCI passthrough.
>>
>> There has been no pcifront in recent Fedora kernels
>
> Sorry to revive such an old thread, I've been a bit removed from
> Fedora under Xen for a couple of years, do any of the more recent
> Fedora releases now include pci-front?

No. Custom kernels with patches from the xen/stable-2.6.32.x will have it, 
and it is hoped that it might be accepted into the upstream 2.6.37 kernel 
so F15 or F16 might have it at some point in their life cycle, but it 
is unlikely that F13 or F14 will ever have it.

 	Michael Young


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