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Re: [Xen-users] DomU Direct Hardware access 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
 
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Andrej Radonic wrote:
 to have a domU which has exclusive access to a NIC. the driver is 
encapsulated in the domU and ensures security and stability of the 
overall system.
    
 
Only if you have an isolation capable IOMMU in the machine...
 
Muli,
sorry for keeping on picking at this: but what is the "backend" 
parameter in the vif statement then for (also found in block-attach as 
well as network-attach)?
I thought it makes no difference to a domU if it accesses a device in 
dom0 or domU-X ... 
Thx,
Andrej
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