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Re: [Xen-devel] Shared memory and event channel

To: Ritu kaur <ritu.kaur.us@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Shared memory and event channel
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:38:33 +0000
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On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 19:26 +0000, Ritu kaur wrote:

> Need a clarification, using pci passthrough I believe it remove access
> to device from dom0 and attaches the device to a domU and from then on
> can only be accessed via that domU or is it possible to have dom0 and
> a single domU gain access to device using pci passthrough? I guess
> not, thought of checking.

You are correct, a given hardware device is only directly accessible to
a single domain at a time, be that dom0 or a domU via PCI passthrough.

Ian.


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