"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>
> > What about the not supported PCI winmodems ? Could we set some range of direct
> > PCI access device ? It's not possible to show to the guest OS the same, exactly
> > the same hardware we really have ?
> > Yes, I know that the VMware doesn't support any of these, but, could we??
> >
> > Pd= I being reading mails for around 2 months, this is my first msg. I'm also
> > reading some about the 386/486/Pentium arquitecture, but I really don't have
> > much time. So I hope by the end of the year to understand the code.
>
> I added docs/txt/FAQ to the CVS tree, and an entry for this question:
>
> Will we be guest OS be able to use devices that the host OS
> does not have drivers for, such as a winmodem?
>
> We are going to try to add a 'pass-through' capability. There are
> some issues surrounding DMA, PnP, etc that need to be worked out,
> depending on the device in question. But this is a very useful
> feature which many people have asked for, so it will likely get
> a lot of coding attention.
>
> -Kevin
Will this be in the kernel module so as to make the wrapper as thin as possible plus
give easy access to interrupts etc??
Bryan
