I once build custom kernel 2.6.32 driver inside xenserver using steps described 
in this page: 

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Kernel_2.6.32 

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On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 4:45 AM, Arjen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I can PCI pass-through my Intel HDA audio controller to a Linux HVM domU 
> as part of virtualizing my desktop. Unfortunately, the audio is 
> stuttering and noisy (ALSA underruns) and I haven't been able to find 
> the right snd_hda_intel module settings to resolve this.
> 
> The work-around that I found for Xen 4.2 (Gentoo) and KVM (Proxmox) was 
> to let the dom0 initialize the device once by loading the snd_hda_intel 
> kernel module, before releasing the device to pciback/pcistub and 
> starting the the domU with PCI pass-through.
> 
> However, I cannot use the same trick on XenServer 6.2 because the dom0 
> does not provide the snd_hda_intel kernel model (and it dependencies).
> I appreciate that sound modules are not usually part of XenServer, but I 
> don't know how else to solve my problem. (Pointers to the right list or 
> forum to ask about this are also very welcome as I can find little 
> information about audio pass-through or snd_hda_intel in a domU.)
> 
> I found information on building XenServer dom0 kernel modules using the 
> DDK but I'm not sure where to find the source for the latest dom0 kernel 
> sound modules. I looks to me that they are also not included in the 
> XenServer 6.2.0(+XS62E004) dom0 kernel sources RPM, but I might be mistaken?
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction for the relevant sources and 
> how to compile them? If you have already compiled (other) "standard but 
> not distributed" kernel modules for XenServer, can you please share your 
> experience?
> 
> kind regards, Arjen
> 
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