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Re: [Xen-users] pci passthrough under xen-3.3 without VT-d

To: "Benjamin Huntsman" <BHuntsman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] pci passthrough under xen-3.3 without VT-d
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:12:56 -0500
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> First, I want to thank you for responding, as I appreciate your assistance.  
> But, are you 100% sure of that?  I've never seen that written so 
> black-and-white in any of the Xen documentation...  From what I could cull 
> from the docs and mail lists, it might not work correctly if the guest 
> doesn't know how to talk to Xen, the hvm qemu-dm ought to at least recognize 
> it's got some extra PCI card...

So apparently there are patches that can make it work...

http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=Guy+Zana+[HVM+PCI+passthrough#query:Guy%20Zana%20%5BHVM%20PCI%20passthrough+page:1+mid:3u22wrh6hryfasno+state:results


I even saw the demo given by Neocleus at the Xen summit in Boston.

I really don't know the status in mainline (if they were accepted or not even).

Maybe you could follow up on that information and post information
back to the list?

Cheers,
Todd

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