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SubjectRe: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> If a pci device is capable of dma (or issuing interrupts), it will be
>> useless with pv pci.
>
> Hrm, I think we may be talking about different things. Are you
> thinking that the driver I posted allows you to do PCI pass-through
> over virtio? That's not what it is.
>
> The driver I posted is a virtio implementation that uses a PCI
> device. This lets you use virtio-blk and virtio-net under KVM. The
> alternative to this virtio PCI device would be a virtio transport
> built with hypercalls like lguest has. I choose a PCI device because
> it ensured that each virtio device showed up like a normal PCI device.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what you're asking about?
>

No, I completely misunderstood the patch. Should review complete
patches rather than random hunks.

Sorry for the noise.

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