> folks, is PCI passthrough available on non vt-d machines for hvm
> guests?
PCI passthrough without any hardware support is being worked on by Neocleus, I
believe. I''m not aware of it being checked into xen-unstable yet but
you
should be able to see the patches online in the mailing list archives.
This won''t give the safety guarantees that vt-d would give you - you
have to
trust the guest.
I don''t know whether their implementation has any other restrictions or
caveats.
> am i right in thinking that the PCI passthrough feature on non
> vt-d machines will make a hvm guest directly access a physical device
> and recv corresponding external interrupts from xen as events? thanks.
Yes, but I think it wouldn''t see them as Xen events, they would be
emulated to
look like real device interrupts (because the guest is not Xen aware).
Cheers,
Mark
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