From: "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Constantine Kousoulos <wuwei@freemail.gr>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: about xen devices
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:00:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165532400.5568.18.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4575C3FB.4000802@freemail.gr>
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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2006-12-05 19:09 about xen devices Constantine Kousoulos
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