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Subject: Re: VIRTIO - compatibility with different virtualization solutions
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> writes: > Hi, > > Below you could find a summary of work in regards to VIRTIO compatibility with > different virtualization solutions. It was done mainly from Xen point of view > but results are quite generic and can be applied to wide spectrum > of virtualization platforms. Hi Daniel, Sorry for the delayed response, I was pondering... CC changed to virtio-dev. From a standard POV: It's possible to abstract out the where we use 'physical address' for 'address handle'. It's also possible to define this per-platform (ie. Xen-PV vs everyone else). This is sane, since Xen-PV is a distinct platform from x86. For platforms using EPT, I don't think you want anything but guest addresses, do you? From an implementation POV: On IOMMU, start here for previous Linux discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.virtualization/14410/focus=14650 And this is the real problem. We don't want to use the PCI IOMMU for PCI devices. So it's not just a matter of using existing Linux APIs. Cheers, Rusty.
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