From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Status of pci passthrough work? Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:12:19 -0600 Message-ID: <200809270112.19843.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200809262020.16885.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301CA865D@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:32179 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750973AbYI0HMV (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:12:21 -0400 Received: from natasha.localnet ([68.149.34.103]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K7U00MEMEOKBA10@l-daemon> for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:12:20 -0600 (MDT) In-reply-to: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301CA865D@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Content-disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. With > Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You can have a > try. Does that mean I need VT-d support in hardware? All I have to test with right now is an AMD Phenom X4 with a 780g+sb700 system. Don't think it has an iommu, and I'd find it odd if the intel VT-d code "just worked" on amd's hardware. > Randy (Weidong) > > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > I'm very interested in being able to pass a few devices through to > > kvm guests. I'm wondering what exactly is working now, and how I can > > start testing it? > > > > the latest kvm release doesn't seem to include any support for it in > > userspace, so I can't test it with that... > > > > Basically what I want to do is assign a two or three physical nics > > (100mb and GiB) to one vm, some tv tuner cards to another. > > > > Also, I'm wondering if AMD's iommu in the SB750 southbridge is > > supported yet? Or if anyone is working on it? > > > > -- > > Thomas Fjellstrom > > tfjellstrom@shaw.ca > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca