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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vfio: VFIO PCI driver for Qemu
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:30:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50104973.3090302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120725165948.17260.82862.stgit@bling.home>

On 07/25/2012 08:03 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> This adds PCI based device assignment to Qemu using the Linux VFIO
> userspace driver interface.  After setting up VFIO device access,
> devices can be added to Qemu guests using the vfio-pci device
> option:
>
>  -device vfio-pci,host=1:10.1,id=net0
>
>

Let's use the same syntax as for kvm device assignment.  Then we can
fall back on kvm when vfio is not available.  We can also have an
optional parameter kernel-driver to explicitly select vfio or kvm.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 17:03 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vfio: VFIO PCI driver for Qemu Alex Williamson
2012-07-25 19:30 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-07-25 19:53   ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26  8:35     ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 14:56       ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26 15:59         ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 16:33           ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26 16:40             ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 19:11               ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26 16:06         ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 16:40           ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26 16:47             ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 15:09 ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-26 16:34 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 17:40   ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-29 13:47     ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-30 22:29       ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-31 12:34         ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-31 16:56           ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-27 19:22 ` Blue Swirl
2012-07-27 20:28   ` Alex Williamson
2012-07-28  2:55   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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