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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] sharing PCI devices .... |
| From: | Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:13:10 +0100 |
| Cc: | Himanshu Raj <rhim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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> A question about PCI devices. If we leave security problems aside, is it > possible to provide access of a PCI device to 2 domains (may include dom > 0), i.e. would current xen implementation suffice or a PCI device can only > be used exclusively by a domain. Not usually: devices are basically stupid and they only expect one entity to be talking to them. If you get multiple domains driving a device directly it'll probably end in tears, although it might be amusing :-) You've really got two choices: 1) Just assign a device to one domain at a time - maybe buy multiple devices to serve multiple domains. 2) Virtualise at a higher level using a backend / frontend. e.g. the virtual block device, virtual net dev, virtual usb dev, etc... What are you actually trying to achieve? Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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