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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for
	QEMU 1.2
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:04:43 +0200
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On 2012-08-13 15:58, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 04:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for pushing this forward!  Hopefully this will finally kill off
>> qemu-kvm.git for good.
> 
> No, it won't.  vfio requires a 3.6 kernel, which we cannot assume anyone
> has.  We'll need the original device assignment code side-by-side.

...which is on my to-do list for 1.3.

Jan

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