Re: Virtualized hardware and PCI

Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-02-18T09:49:44Z

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:47:07AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

How would you handle device interrupts? take them in the host and then
inject to the guest through the qemu device emulation?

Cheers,
Muli