From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d support Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:34:20 +0300 Message-ID: <4879AFFC.8000004@qumranet.com> References: <1215681282-3449-1-git-send-email-benami@il.ibm.com> <200807101730.26586.sheng.yang@intel.com> <1215683513.31546.175.camel@cluwyn.haifa.ibm.com> <200807101807.28719.sheng.yang@intel.com> <20080710144124.GD7273@il.ibm.com> <48762374.3000002@qumranet.com> <20080710160047.GE7273@il.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Yang, Sheng" , Ben-Ami Yassour1 , kvm@vger.kernel.org, amit.shah@qumranet.com, weidong.han@intel.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, "Kay, Allen M" To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:45763 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbYGMHeW (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:34:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080710160047.GE7273@il.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > >> On the other hand, this means that you will not be able to assign >> devices unless you specified this when creating the VM; but I think >> this is fair. >> > > It will be nice to support hot-plugged pass-through devices some time > in the future. > > And it should be easy to do too. The question is whether we need to allocate the iommu domain up front (which would mean that a command line parameter would be needed, meaning roughly 'support pci device assignment on this guest'. Kind of like -usb, which means 'support usb device assignment on this guest'. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function