From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FytlR-00020k-Ra for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:05:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FytlP-0001zv-Fk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:05:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FytlP-0001zs-Am for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:05:11 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.6] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fytlr-0002lZ-6k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:05:39 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI bridging Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:05:02 +0100 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607071805.02580.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Palleni, F. - Franco -" On Friday 07 July 2006 17:31, Palleni, F. - Franco - wrote: > Hi to All, > > i'm writing to propose a feature, I would like to insert in qemu > machine some hardware installed in host PC like a frame grabber, or > other special hardware. How do you thimk about this features? it sould > be implemented like kemu accelerator or somting like that. This has been discussed a coupe of times before[1]. Short answer is that it requires either guest OS support (and corresponding support in the guest OS drivers), or that the device does not use DMA. Paul [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-01/msg00082.html