[libvirt-users] PCI-X card controlled by VM

Daniel Gonzalez gonvaled at gonvaled.com
Mon Mar 5 16:06:19 UTC 2012


Thanks Eric,

Does this also apply for PCI express?

Daniel

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/05/2012 03:11 AM, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a PCI-X card which I would like to assign to one of my VM guests.
> > Is there any way, using libvirt, of completely bypassing the host system,
> > and routing all PCI-X interaction (drivers, interrupts, general
> ownership)
> > to one of the VMs?
>
> Yes, you can use device passthrough to completely transfer control of a
> PCI device out of the host and into one of the guests.
>
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsUSB
>
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> Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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