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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PCI passthrough support via PV-PCI

To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: PCI passthrough support via PV-PCI
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:59:42 +0100
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Shouldn't they happen from xend or pciback?

 -- Keir

On 2/7/08 13:58, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note however that it can not work as such because ioemu needs to perform
> some domctls, which the hypervisor will not let the stub domain do.  We
> need to find a secure way to allow a domain to call memory/IO mapping
> and IRQ/MSI binding domctls when it is allowed to, i.e. probably have
> xend tell the hypervisor which PCI cards are controlled by which domains
> and then accept domctls for their resources.
> 
> Samuel
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