On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:44:06PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> It's that "second" part that I'm worried about. How is that going to >> happen? Do you have any patches that show this kind of "assignment"? >> >> > > For kvm, this is in 2.6.28-rc. Where? I just looked and couldn't find anything, but odds are I was looking in the wrong place :( > Note there are two ways to assign a device to a guest: > > - run the VF driver in the guest: this has the advantage of best > performance, but requires pinning all guest memory, makes live migration a > tricky proposition, and ties the guest to the underlying hardware. Is this what you would prefer for kvm? > - run the VF driver in the host, and use virtio to connect the guest to the > host: allows paging the guest and allows straightforward live migration, > but reduces performance, and hides any features not exposed by virtio from > the guest. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
