On Sunday 10 June 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > > - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball > > device (e.g., crypto-accelerators). > > > Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio? It can be done, but you'd also need a passthrough for the IOMMU in that case, and you get a potential security hole: if a malicious guest is smart enough to figure out IOMMU mappings from the device to memory owned by the host. Arnd <>< _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
