I'm at bit of a loss as I want to use ClearOS to manage my WiFi Network which iirc is possible, but I have an issue that XenServer is not seeing and I don't think installing my PCI Wireless Cards.
I've followed the steps on unbinding them and allowing them to be rebound to pciback also having them set for pciback.hide and all I get is 'Error 38: Feature not implemented' and even before I tried to pass them through directly to the VM's neither of them had been given their drivers there was no Wlan0 or Wlan1 devices when I ran 'ifconfig' nor in '/sys/class/net/'.
lspci -kvm
is there a way to get them installed in XenServer or do I need to find a better Hypervisor maybe Windows Hyper-V... though I hate the thought of having Windows being my Hypervisor...
I've followed the steps on unbinding them and allowing them to be rebound to pciback also having them set for pciback.hide and all I get is 'Error 38: Feature not implemented' and even before I tried to pass them through directly to the VM's neither of them had been given their drivers there was no Wlan0 or Wlan1 devices when I ran 'ifconfig' nor in '/sys/class/net/'.
lspci -kvm
Device: 01:08.0
Class: Network controller
Vendor: Ralink corp.
Device: RT2500 Wireless 802.11bg
SVendor: Linksys
SDevice: WMP54G v4.0 PCI Adapter
Rev: 01
Device: 01:09.0
Class: Network controller
Vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
Device: AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn]
SVendor: D-Link System Inc
SDevice: Device 3a69
Rev: 01
is there a way to get them installed in XenServer or do I need to find a better Hypervisor maybe Windows Hyper-V... though I hate the thought of having Windows being my Hypervisor...
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I have two questions here:
1. Why not run ClearOS directly on the hardware?
2. Does your board has pci passthrough support?
The latter is quiet rare, although it became more common on recent hardware. I bought a dedicated server mainboard in order to use pci passthrough of a Fritzcard Fax PCI to a windows vm.
Check here: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough#How_can_I_tell_if_I_have_IOMMU_.2F_VT-D_support.3F
The above link only tells half of the truth, I needed to pass a kernel command in grub.conf as well. Although I'd expect that to be set on a XenServer.
For both AMD and Intel systems, PCI passthrough on Xen requires the iommu=on parameter to the hypervisor command line. Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf file as follows to enable PCI passthrough
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