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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:12:40 -0500
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Cc: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, benami@il.ibm.com,
	muli@il.ibm.com, "Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
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	"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Han, Weidong wrote:
>>     - Add dummy driver to hide/unbind passthrough device from host
>> kernel
>>   
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>
> Maybe this can be implemented at the modprobe/hotplug level.

Wouldn't you just blacklist the devices in the host and call it a day?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori