[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: add qemu.conf option to disable PCI passthrough

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jul 18 13:07:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:05:04PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 01:03 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Why do we need this non-feature ?  If you don't want pci passthrough
> > then just don't use it. We don't need global config params to disble
> > arbitrary guest device types like this.
> 
> Oh, I didn't write a commit message.
> 
> VDSM asked for this for Common Criteria certification.

That is totally bogus. Base Libvirt / KVM have been common criteria
certified already, and PCI passthrough is simply declared to be out
of scope of the certification. There is no need to add a global config
parameter to disable it in qemu.conf to satisfy CCC.

Regards,
Daniel
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