From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 15:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: NVMe driver within hypervisors In-Reply-To: <53cea8aa3891427498928f77e6b9dc46@hioexcmbx06-prd.hq.netapp.com> References: <53cea8aa3891427498928f77e6b9dc46@hioexcmbx06-prd.hq.netapp.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bhattacharya, Indranil wrote: > Hi, > > Is a NVMe driver available for the Xen hypervisor? I see that a Vmware ESXi driver has become available (http://www.nvmexpress.org/blog/1556/); but I don't see any similar announcement for Xen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Xen derive device driver support from its "dom-0"? Just use an nvme-capable Linux guest there and you've enabled Xen to support nvme, yeah?