Hi,

I vaguely remember that UML has direct hardware access. But I might be
talking nonsense now.
Still, worth a check.

- Noam

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, 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.
>
>
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