Re: PCI passthrough in nested kvm

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On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 23:50 -0500, Tian Fang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nested kvm is supported. Wondering if a PCI device is able to be
> passed through into the nested kvm. Could some experts share some
> insides?

No, there's no iommu exposed to the L1 guest, so there's no way to
program the iommu for the L2 guest.  You would also be bouncing
interrupts from the host to the L1 guest to the L2 guest, so you could
expect a performance hit with each level you add.

Alex

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