On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:38:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Looking at two random servers here and a desktop, interrupts are
> unshared except for usb. A laptop was not so lucky. So "no chance" is
> a bit extreme.
>
> I agree it's far from optimal, but it is less limited than you imply.
Wel
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> No, it means disallowing pci devices that use shared irqs, and allowing
> pci devices that use non-shared irqs.
Most machiens I see today have almost no chance of having PCI devices
without shared IRQs. This probably means any impleme
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.
Disal
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:53:19PM +0300, Or Sagi wrote:
> Gentlepeople,
>
> We're currently working on PCI device pass-through support for KVM. In this
> model all physical hardware access to specific devices will be performed by
> the VM, and not by the host.
>
> In particular, this requires in