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Re: [Xen-users] PCI Digium TDM410p paravirtualization passthrough

To: Paolo Rivetti <natecult@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] PCI Digium TDM410p paravirtualization passthrough
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:17:02 +0200
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:34:44PM +0100, Paolo Rivetti wrote:
>    Hello everyone! My name is Paul.
>    I am a KVM user and I need to assign a PCI card to a virtual
>    machine. OK! But the host motherboard I have available does not support
>    VT-d, then with KVM no way to assign a PCI device to the VM.
>    A developer of KVM suggested me Xen because told me that support
>    paravirtualization devices passthrough.
> 
>    Practically the motherboard that I have available, mounts an Intel G33
>    chipset with a controller 82801IR (this is the mb:
>    
> [1]http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01324212&lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product
>    = 3691066).
> 
>    Ultimately I virtualize OpenFiler distribution with direct access to 2
>    SATA drives installed on the host and then a distribution of Asterisk with
>    direct access to a PCI Digium TDM410p.
> 
>    In both cases I think to use the paravirtualization. You think I can
>    achieve this by using Xen type 1?
> 

Yes, Xen supports PCI passthrough to paravirtual guests without VT-d.
Actually Xen has supported this for years.

Also it's pretty common scenario to use Xen to passthrough a PCI card to 
Asterisk VM.

-- Pasi


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