Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 12 authors, 2007-08-24

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

From: Chris Wright <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-22 22:21:29
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* James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote:
If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could
be extremely useful for me.
Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering?
Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through).  Without an IOMMU
(like Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU) it's not DMA safe.

thanks,
-chris
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