Hi, Yes, I would like to hear about ANY virtualized solution which lets you "lock" specific PCI device for use directly (and only) by a VM. You can do it with USB / firewire devices. To make it work with VM, it is required (at least according to the qemu mailing list) that the bios shouldn't map the device and won't lock it. Thats why, btw, you cannot lock an AGP/PCIe graphics card to be used specifically with a VM.
thanks, hetz On 5/4/08, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdie folks, > > My client needs to develop tools that communicate directly with QLA2xxx > cards. at the moment, working on regular kernels he gets the machine > stuck at times. I read somewhere that with Xen, there's a way to let the > VMs talk to the hardware directly and that will make getting unstuck a > bit easier. Xen however is a bit of a chore. should/could I use KVM > instead? will it support the hardware access I need? > > Also, somce sales guy at Qlogic told them that VMware ESX lets them do > what they need and that it is in fact the "recommended way" of developping > hardware-direct code by Qlogic. I found that extremely odd, and not > backed up by any ESX product sheets. > > Recommendations are welcome. > > > -- > How the west was won > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
