On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:02:25 -0700 Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Device passthrough technology allows a guest to bypass the hypervisor and drive > the underlying physical device. VMware has been exploring various ways to > deliver this technology to users in a manner which is easy to adopt. In this > process we have prepared an architecture along with Intel - NPA (Network Plugin > Architecture). NPA allows the guest to use the virtualized NIC vmxnet3 to > passthrough to a number of physical NICs which support it. The document below > provides an overview of NPA. > > We intend to upgrade the upstreamed vmxnet3 driver to implement NPA so that > Linux users can exploit the benefits provided by passthrough devices in a > seamless manner while retaining the benefits of virtualization. The document > below tries to answer most of the questions which we anticipated. Please let us > know your comments and queries. > > Thank you. > > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@xxxxxxxxxx> Code please. Also, it has to work for all architectures not just VMware and Intel. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
