* about xen devices
@ 2006-12-05 19:09 Constantine Kousoulos
2006-12-07 23:00 ` Andrew D. Ball
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From: Constantine Kousoulos @ 2006-12-05 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xen-devel
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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* Re: about xen devices
2006-12-05 19:09 about xen devices Constantine Kousoulos
@ 2006-12-07 23:00 ` Andrew D. Ball
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From: Andrew D. Ball @ 2006-12-07 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Constantine Kousoulos; +Cc: xen-devel
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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