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

[Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>]

Hi Wayne,
You should be looking for "vmx" flag in cpuinfo.
Your CPU should support it, so You should be fine unless
it's disabled in BIOS.
BR
nik

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:05:36AM -0800, Wayne Feick wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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