Ok, Would someone show me any VM solution that can "lock" a PCI/AGP/PCIe device (such as graphics card), so it can be used with any VM exclusivly?
Hetz On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Armak wrote: >> >> It does work without an IOMMU, it just doesn't protect you from a buggy >> driver causing DMA access to the wrong address. For other kinds of driver >> bugs, this might still be better than no virtualization. >> > > Thing is, a real (as opposed to para-virtualized) kernel does not know what > physical addresses it runs on. It does not have to be buggy in order to give > the DMA controller the wrong addresses. > > You are right that I did not account for para-virtualized domains. As far as > I know, of the three, only Xen supports those. > > Shachar > > ================================================================= > 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]
