Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:20:36 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt |
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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.
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