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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM devices assignment; PCIe AER?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:54:17 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:24:00PM -0700, Etienne Martineau wrote:
> ***One of the aspect I'm not clear is the strategy for
> device-assignment under KVM?
> A) Move to VFIO; [/dev/iommu, /dev/vfio]
> B) KVM as a driver for the assigned devices; [sysfs/ ioctls..]
> C) No plan for short term
> 
> Alex, Chris, Michael thanks for your reply.
> -Etienne

We will have to keep supporting B for a long while.

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MST