This is an interesting concept.... do you mean
something like letting your windows (vm contained)
session handle its own sound output to a device that
linux does not support (in full or in part)?
Drew Northup, N1XIM
--- Julian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Other devices may need this as well, so we need
> the infrastructure
> >> in there.
> >
> >A timing infrastructure is a good thing, but I was
> >thinking of having that more in the terms of guest
> >timing... what point is there in having a host
> timing
> >infrastructure ?
>
> We probably want to be able to configure the VMs to
> be able to use devices
> that the emulation doesn't know about, therfore
> allowing at least one
> virtual machine to run devices that there aren't
> host native drivers for...
> but in many cases the host would need to be able to
> respond in real time
> to the device (eg cd writers, tape streamers, etc).
> Therefore there must
> be some way of configuring a 'real time response'
> situation (probably
> triggered by IO on ports which are directly mapped
> through, and lasting up
> to say a second after such IO has finished...) to
> allow the drivers to get
> realistic timing information.
>
>
>
>
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