[Xen-users] Using xen with separated hardware configurations

[Philip Van Hoof <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

We'd like to utilise Xen to hide and enable specific hardware components
of a computer system for specified operating systems.

We have, for example, an USB-device and a device on the PCI-bus. We'd
like to run two instances of an operating system (two kernels) on a dual
Xeon cpu-hardware configuration. Each kernel on one such cpu would be
nice, of course.

We would like to make the USB-device usable on two instances of an
operating system, whereas for the device on the PCI-bus we only want to
make it accessible for one of the two instances.

Is this (already) possible with the Xen-technology? If so, how to do
this (where can I find the documentation for it?). If not, is it
planned? Or do the Xen developers at this moment feel that this
shouldn't ever be in the scope of the project?


Thanks


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