Wayne Feick wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:45 +0530, Amit Shah wrote: >> Hello Wayne, >> >> On (Tue) Jan 27 2009 [21:15:22], Wayne Feick wrote: >>> I recently saw the following: >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment >>> >>> This looks like it might allow guests to access a firewire device. Can >>> anyone confirm or deny whether that will be the case? >> Is the firewire port on a PCI card? If yes, it *might* work. We've only >> tested network device assignment so far; if you have a system with VT-d, >> you can give it a try yourself. >> >> Amit. > > Thanks for the response, Amit. Yes, firewire tends to sit on the PCI > bus. Looking at the reported flags for my notebook CPU (Core 2 T7200) I > don't see vt-d so I guess it won't work on this system. > > I've only started playing with non-VMware virtualization recently, and > I'm fast learning that not all Intel CPUs are equal when it comes to > virtualization support. Handy reference for Intel processors and the features each specific model has: http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/index.htm david > > Wayne. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
