Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:46:13PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> IMO the only reasonable solution is to disallow interrupt forwarding >> with shared irqs. If someone later comes up with a bright idea, we can >> implement it. Otherwise the problem will solve itself with hardware >> moving to msi. >> > > Disallowing shared IRQs means disallowing PCI devices in general, so now > you are back to ISA only devices, which it sounds like were the only > things already allowed by vm86 or whatever it was for passing through. > >
No, it means disallowing pci devices that use shared irqs, and allowing pci devices that use non-shared irqs. > Certainly does appear to have potential though for allowing more > interesting virtual machines. > IMO pass-through is counter to most of the benefits of virtualization. But users seem to want it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
