Re: [kvm-devel] kvm + IOMMU

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:52 -0700, David Brown wrote: > > Hi David, > > I am not an expert here, but I don't believe it would work without > > changes to KVM. My understanding is that you use an IOMMU in this > > fashion if you want to direct-map a device into a guest for devices that > > do not

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm + IOMMU

2007-06-13 Thread David Brown
> Hi David, > I am not an expert here, but I don't believe it would work without > changes to KVM. My understanding is that you use an IOMMU in this > fashion if you want to direct-map a device into a guest for devices that > do not have a local IOMMU-like functionality built in already. For >

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm + IOMMU

2007-06-13 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:27 -0700, David Brown wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has done any sort of virtualization testing > with kvm using IOMMU to improve performance of I/O and what sort of > results they've had... I currently don't have a box with IOMMU (at > least I don't think so, since it

[kvm-devel] kvm + IOMMU

2007-06-13 Thread David Brown
I was wondering if anyone has done any sort of virtualization testing with kvm using IOMMU to improve performance of I/O and what sort of results they've had... I currently don't have a box with IOMMU (at least I don't think so, since its an i386 box) but will be getting some amd64 boxes which, hop