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From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings
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eOn Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Aaron Fabbri wrote:
[snip]
> Yes.  In essence, I'd rather not have to run any other admin processes.
> Doing things programmatically, on the fly, from each process, is the
> cleanest model right now.

The "persistent group" model doesn't necessarily prevent that.
There's no reason your program can't use the administrative interface
as well as the "use" interface, and I don't see that making the admin
interface separate and persistent makes this any harder.

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