Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

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* James Courtier-Dutton (James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could
> be extremely useful for me.
> Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering?

Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through).  Without an IOMMU
(like Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU) it's not DMA safe.

thanks,
-chris
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