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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:38:33 +0300
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Cc: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Han, Weidong wrote:
>>>     - Add dummy driver to hide/unbind passthrough device from host
>>> kernel
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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?
>

Does blacklisting work using pci ids or bus/dev/fn?  If the former, you 
wouldn't be able to assign one device to the host and one to the guest, 
if both had the same pci id (dual-port NIC, for example).

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