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Subject: Re: Xen and Infiniband as dom0 (only)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:56:43 +0200
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:29:54PM +0100, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I am trying to make infiniband working on a dom0.  To allow me fast access to storage, and fast migration between hypervisor.
> 
> I still don't want to do Ib as Hypervisor Accelerator and specialy what is shown on slide 12 of this paper : http://xen.org/files/Xen_Virtualization_InfiniBand_Mellanox_MKagan.pdf, but I need rdma to get fast access to storage :
> - iSer (eg iscsi over infiniband)
> - RDMA for NFS over RDMA or stuff like this.
> 
> On my host, without Xen (F12, with myoung kernel backported, xen 4.0.0-rc6 and OFED 1.5.1-RC4), I can use correctly ipoib (IP over IB), but rdma is still broken.
> 
> Is there any people that has made dom0 IB working that can me some hints about what I have to fix ?
> 

Well what actually is the problem? 
What kind of errors do you get? 

-- Pasi