Aragorn wrote:

I wouldn't advise running X inside /dom0./ You'd be introducing a
stability hazard - i.e. a proprietary video driver - to the
controller/driver domain, and if it gives you trouble, it'll take down
all /domU/ virtual machines with it.

The idea above was for a xenless setup, for the xen environment I have 3
graphics cards, one for dom0 (console only), one for the desktop domU
and yet another for mediapalyer domU.

The funny thing with dom0 is that the cursor is misplaced, it's 4-5
positions to the left, which makes it a bit difficult to edit, at the
moment I ssh to the machine, which makes it a lot easier.

At the moment I'm back with Xen dom0 on Linux, got the 2.6.21 kernel to
boot now, i had to make a BIOS change and make the SATA to work with
AHCI.

Make sure you have PCI passthrough enabled in the /dom0/ kernel, under
the Xen options... ;-)

I did select Virtual PCI, which supposed to work, just
renaming/numbering the the exported devices.

At the moment the nic isn't working, I may have to back port sky2
driver from 2.6.22,

It turned out it was working, just that the firewire got to become the
eth0 for some reason, which made the nic to become eth1/eth2 and
wouldn't work as I had configured only eth0.

Well, I try to stay away from USB for HID anyway. I do have a Logitech
cordless mouse - MX-1000, I believe - but it's plugged into the PS/2
mouse port, and the keyboard is PS/2 too. In my humble opinion, that's
not what USB was invented for, and I can think of far better use for my
USB ports. ;-)

Nowadays there are so many USB ports that one don't know what to do with
all of them, think I have 10 on this machine and I'm used to have only
6, to have a keyboard to the desktop and one for the dom0, I will need
one setup to go with USB.

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 06:45, someone who identifies as *J.O. Aho* wrote
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Aragorn wrote:

I wouldn't advise running X inside /dom0./ You'd be introducing a
stability hazard - i.e. a proprietary video driver - to the
controller/driver domain, and if it gives you trouble, it'll take down
all /domU/ virtual machines with it.
The idea above was for a xenless setup, for the xen environment I have 3
graphics cards, one for dom0 (console only), one for the desktop domU
and yet another for mediapalyer domU.

Do you run X inside /dom0?/

The funny thing with dom0 is that the cursor is misplaced, it's 4-5
positions to the left, which makes it a bit difficult to edit, at the
moment I ssh to the machine, which makes it a lot easier.

Is this in X or in a character mode console?

Make sure you have PCI passthrough enabled in the /dom0/ kernel, under
the Xen options...
I did select Virtual PCI, which supposed to work, just
renaming/numbering the the exported devices.

That is one option. I've opted for PCI passthrough on my preliminary
set-up, although I haven't actually tried that out yet. Just configured
and built the kernels, but haven't even gotten around to making the system
bootable yet.

At the moment the nic isn't working, I may have to back port sky2
driver from 2.6.22,
It turned out it was working, just that the firewire got to become the
eth0 for some reason, which made the nic to become eth1/eth2 and
wouldn't work as I had configured only eth0.

That's bizarre, and good to know as well, given that I also have Firewire on
that machine.

Well, I try to stay away from USB for HID anyway. I do have a Logitech
cordless mouse - MX-1000, I believe - but it's plugged into the PS/2
mouse port, and the keyboard is PS/2 too. In my humble opinion, that's
not what USB was invented for, and I can think of far better use for my
USB ports.
Nowadays there are so many USB ports that one don't know what to do with
all of them, think I have 10 on this machine and I'm used to have only
6, to have a keyboard to the desktop and one for the dom0, I will need
one setup to go with USB.

From what I've read on one of the forums, such a set-up would work in theory
but not in practice. Someone reported a dual-seat set-up like that on a
Xen machine, one virtual machine - presumably /dom0/ - set up with the PS/2
keyboard and mouse, and a /domU/ virtual machine with a dedicated videocard
and dedicated USB keyboard and mouse.

In addition, it seems that with Xen 3.x, one needs to dedicate an entire USB
hub to /domU,/ whereas in Xen 2.x it was still possible to dedicate
individual USB ports to /domU./

Your mileage may of course vary. I'm just reporting on some of the things
I've read. :-)

I saw something about that too, but don't believe it until you have