Possible to delegate hardware to domU?

[Arik Raffael Funke]

Hi,

is it possible to hide hardware from dom0 and delegate it to a domU with
the out-of-the-box Fedora xen? I.e. with pciback. I would like to
delegate a network interface to one of my domU's. Can anybody confirm
either that it is or that it is not possible?

Thanks.
- Arik

[Robert Story]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:44:40 +0200 Arik wrote:
ARF> is it possible to hide hardware from dom0 and delegate it to a domU with
ARF> the out-of-the-box Fedora xen? I.e. with pciback. I would like to
ARF> delegate a network interface to one of my domU's. Can anybody confirm
ARF> either that it is or that it is not possible?

I'm not sure about Fedora XEN (I'm only using fedora on guests), but with
RHEL/Centos 5 as dom0, this works for me to hide a USB interface:

title CentOS (2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 dom0_mem=512M 
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen ro root=/dev/k/root pciback.hide=(00:09.0)(00:09.1)(00:09.2) noirqdebug
        module /initrd-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen.img