The latter option -- new drivers, unless you''re mapping devices to
guests giving the illusion that the guest has complete controlled over
the mapped devices (pci pass-through, iommu, etc.).
Peace.
Andrew
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:09 +0200, Constantine Kousoulos
wrote:> Hello all,
>
> I am a bit confused about the use of backend drivers by guest
os''es.
>
> A guest os must modify/port it''s drivers so that they can
> communicate with the backend drivers? Or a guest os stops using
> its own native drivers and just communicates with the backend
> drivers through newly implemented frontend drivers?
>
> I hope you can clear that up for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Constantine
>
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