Re: Does KVM PCI Device Assignment allow guests to access firewire?

[Wayne Feick <waf@brunz.org>]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:45 +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello Wayne,
> 
> On (Tue) Jan 27 2009 [21:15:22], Wayne Feick wrote:
> > I recently saw the following:
> > 
> >    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
> > 
> > This looks like it might allow guests to access a firewire device. Can
> > anyone confirm or deny whether that will be the case? 
> 
> Is the firewire port on a PCI card? If yes, it *might* work. We've only
> tested network device assignment so far; if you have a system with VT-d,
> you can give it a try yourself.
> 
> Amit.

Thanks for the response, Amit. Yes, firewire tends to sit on the PCI
bus. Looking at the reported flags for my notebook CPU (Core 2 T7200) I
don't see vt-d so I guess it won't work on this system.

I've only started playing with non-VMware virtualization recently, and
I'm fast learning that not all Intel CPUs are equal when it comes to
virtualization support.

Wayne.