From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Ahern" Subject: Re: Does KVM PCI Device Assignment allow guests to access firewire? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:49:38 -0700 Message-ID: <49812752.7050103@cisco.com> References: <1233119722.11203.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090128151555.GD1759@amit-x200.pnq.redhat.com> <1233162336.4895.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Wayne Feick Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:56233 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753689AbZA2Dtm (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:49:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1233162336.4895.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >