Re: Virtualized hardware and PCI

Avi Kivity
2007-02-18T09:47:07Z

Ronald Lew wrote:
> Can Guest OS access abnormal PCI cards such as a fax card or a card designed
> for analog phones (like Digium cards)? Can the guest OS gain full access to
> the PCI card without going through the virtualization?
>
>

At present this is not supported. On current hardware it could be made
to work, but only with cards which don't do dma.

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