From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Magenheimer Subject: RE: philosophically about IGD pass-through (was: feature suggestion: DMAR table emulation for Xen) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BED3854.9090801@invisiblethingslab.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Joanna Rutkowska , Keir Fraser Cc: "Kay, Allen M" , "Cihula, Joseph" , "Han, Weidong" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > The only(?) advantage you gain by using graphics passthorugh is for the > apps. But is it really worth it? How many 3D-capable apps business > users > use today? Google Earth? Anything else? So, in order to support Google > Earth, is it really worth to introduce potential VM escape attacks? Are you assuming business users never play the hottest latest games at lunch or after hours? I suppose you could use crappy game performance as a positive selling point for your product as long as your target audience for your sales pitch is the CTO and other executives and not the business users themselves. :-) (Note, tongue-in-cheek, no need to defend your product. :)