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Re: [Xen-users] PCI Passthrough without VT-d


  • To: Jan Češčut <Jan.Cescut@xxxxxx>
  • From: chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:35:49 -0500
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vt-d is required for passthrough of pci devices to a hvm domain
(windows). support for passthrough of video devices is high
experimental and only in recent versions.

- chris

2010/2/26 Jan Češčut <Jan.Cescut@xxxxxx>:
> As I read XEN supports assigning a pci device to an unprivileged domain
> without hardware supporting it. Has anyone already tried it? Are there any
> security risks? If I understand correctly how PCI passthrough works the
> performance should be the same as using the pci device in native mode. Is it
> so? I have a PCI video card which would like to use inside a VM running
> Windows XP.
>
>
>
> Thanks and have a nice day,
>
> Jan
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