Re: kvm PCI assignment VFIO ramblings

2011-08-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: On 8/26/11 7:07 AM, Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de wrote: Forget the KVM case for a moment and think of a user space device driver. I as a user am not root. But I as a user when having access to /dev/vfioX want to be able to access the device and

Re: kvm PCI assignment VFIO ramblings

2011-08-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: On 8/26/11 12:35 PM, Chris Wright chr...@sous-sol.org wrote: * Aaron Fabbri (aafab...@cisco.com) wrote: Each process will open vfio devices on the fly, and they need to be able to share IOMMU resources. How do you share IOMMU resources w