On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:40:47AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > There is work in progress for pci pass through capability. Besides > > PCI it also required to have pv dma or 1-1 mapping between the > > guest and the host. Both will be released in the following > > month. NIC pass through works but I'm not sure about the features > > required from VGA pass through. Dor. > > Perhaps if we use host IOMMU we don't need pv DMA ?
Indeed, an IOMMU can provide the 1-1 mapping Dor mentioned above (or you can have both PV DMA and an IOMMU). > How do you say to host to not manage a PCI devices and let the guest > managing it ? If the host driver is modular, it might be enough to just not load (or unload) it. Cheers, Muli -- SYSTOR 2007 --- 1st Annual Haifa Systems and Storage Conference 2007 http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/systor2007/ Virtualization workshop: Oct 29th, 2007 | Storage workshop: Oct 30th, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
