On Sun, 23 May 2010, adhyas.avas...@nokia.com wrote: > In the options for qemu, I did see an option that allowed me to define a host > bus:dev:fn number to be accessible to the guest. This was not one of the USB > options I believe. So I assumed some kind of pass-through support is present. > > For a PCI pass-through, we probably would not need to emulate the device > completely (or else what is the need of pass-through). We can emulate just a > few of the capabilities, and the command/INT registers that are needed to be > emulated. Even VMware pass-throughs the rest AFAIK. I didn’t realize qemu-kvm > did not have this support yet. > > PS: I have read papers that read about similar experiments people have > carried on qemu. Didn't realize no code was checked back in the source tree. > Thanks for letting me know. >
Xen supports graphic device passthrought since version 4.0, if you are interested the wiki page is here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough depending on the device you want to passthrough it might be easy or very difficult though...
