On Sunday 10 June 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball
> > device (e.g., crypto-accelerators).
> >
> Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio?
It can be done, but you'd also need a passthrough for the IOMMU
in that case, and you get a potential security hole: if a malicious
guest is smart enough to figure out IOMMU mappings from the device
to memory owned by the host.
Arnd <><
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