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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: "eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro" <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"david@gibson.dropbear.id.au" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are there any IOMMU emulation in QEMU for x86 platform
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:13:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528B2BCD.10201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DDCAE26804250545B9934A2056554AA01FBC9304@ORSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>

Il 19/11/2013 07:34, Jiang, Yunhong ha scritto:
> Hi, all
> I noticed there are several patchset has been sent out about IOMMU emulation like
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-10/msg03764.html,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg03196.html .
> Also I noticed that PPC platform has IOMMU emulation support in QEMU
> already. Are there any plan to support IOMMU emulation in QEMU for x86 now?

Not that I know of.  Of course, patches are welcome.

> 	And also, does it requires the real host platform have the IOMMU to support the QEMU IOMMU emulation? Or it will be a purely software emulation?

For emulated devices it could be purely software.  Nested device
assignment would require a host IOMMU, and would require the host IOMMU
driver to do some kind of shadow-paging.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19  6:34 [Qemu-devel] Are there any IOMMU emulation in QEMU for x86 platform Jiang, Yunhong
2013-11-19  9:13 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-11-20  0:01   ` Jiang, Yunhong
2013-12-02  9:37     ` Knut Omang

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