From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq0sZ-0006dJ-Eo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq0sX-0006d7-20 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iq0sW-0006d4-ST for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:36 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iq0sW-0007er-Ie for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4732AC8F.1010806@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:28:31 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <11944647133010-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <11944647133010-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] KVM userspace: Add PCI device passthrough support Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amit Shah Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Amit Shah wrote: > This patch introduces support for device passthrough > from the host to a paravirtualized guest. > > A new command-line option, -passthrough is added. > For example, to invoke it for an Ethernet device sitting at > PCI bus:dev.fn 04:08.0 with host IRQ 18, use this: > > -passthrough Ethernet/04:08.0-18 > > Could be named '-pci' or '-pcidevice' like '-usb' or '-usbdevice'. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.