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Chris Wright wrote: > * James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote: >> If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could >> be extremely useful for me. >> Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering? > > Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through). Without an IOMMU > (like Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU) it's not DMA safe. > > thanks, > -chris Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features. Kind Regards James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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