[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk-GUI 0011538]: PCI Frontend not enabled in Xen DomU images

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11538 
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Reported By:                riddles
Assigned To:                james
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Project:                    Asterisk-GUI
Issue ID:                   11538
Category:                   Card Detection
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Asterisk Version:           1.4.15  
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             12-13-2007 11:41 CST
Last Modified:              01-06-2008 06:44 CST
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Summary:                    PCI Frontend not enabled in Xen DomU images
Description: 
In the current Beta6 Xen DomU image (x86_64), the kernel option
CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND is not set, making it impossible to use the
Zaptel hardware under Xen. I'm now using CentOS 5 with Asterisk 1.4 in my
DomU instead of AsteriskNOW and it works just fine.

I've tried recompiling the kernel, but even though kernel:build-tree is
installed, I cannot compile the kernel, as the image does not include the
full source. 

This is a fairly odd omission for a DomU kernel. Can this be added in a
next release?
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 riddles - 01-06-08 06:44  
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Why not support Zaptel hardware through virtual machines? This is something
that is supported by Xen through pciback / pci frontend and it works for me
with a 4x fxo/fxs digium card, but right now I'm forced to use CentOS as
the AsteriskNow Xen DomU image doesn't have the support compiled in. 
Perhaps just add a disclaimer in the documentation that this is not fully
supported? 

Issue History 
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01-06-08 06:44  riddles        Note Added: 0076375                          
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