[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] More virtio users
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > > - PCI (or your favorite HW bus) passthrough, for your favorite oddball > > device (e.g., crypto-accelerators). > > > Won't all high-bandwidth traffic be through dma, bypassing virtio? It can be done, but you'd also need a passthrough for the IOMMU in that case, and you get a potential security hole: if a malicious guest is smart enough to figure out IOMMU mappings from the device to memory owned by the host. Arnd <>< _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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