Re: Does KVM PCI Device Assignment allow guests to access firewire?

["David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>]

Wayne Feick wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:45 +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>> Hello Wayne,
>>
>> On (Tue) Jan 27 2009 [21:15:22], Wayne Feick wrote:
>>> I recently saw the following:
>>>
>>>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
>>>
>>> This looks like it might allow guests to access a firewire device. Can
>>> anyone confirm or deny whether that will be the case? 
>> Is the firewire port on a PCI card? If yes, it *might* work. We've only
>> tested network device assignment so far; if you have a system with VT-d,
>> you can give it a try yourself.
>>
>> Amit.
> 
> Thanks for the response, Amit. Yes, firewire tends to sit on the PCI
> bus. Looking at the reported flags for my notebook CPU (Core 2 T7200) I
> don't see vt-d so I guess it won't work on this system.
> 
> I've only started playing with non-VMware virtualization recently, and
> I'm fast learning that not all Intel CPUs are equal when it comes to
> virtualization support.

Handy reference for Intel processors and the features each specific
model has:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/index.htm


david

> 
> Wayne.
> 
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