Re: [Xen-users] Is hardware PCI passthrough working in 3.0 yet?

["Dieter Edinger (WEB.DE)" <dieter.edinger@xxxxxx>]

Urs Thuermann schrieb:

> David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Really? Personally I think that is the best, most amazing feature of
> > Xen. It's too bad more people aren't using it.
> >    
> I also haven't gone for Xen yet because of this feature missing.  I'd
> like to run Xen on a SMP machine where I have a file/mail/news server
> in dom0 and a router/firewall in domU, i.e. dom0 should have access to
> most PCI hardware like harddisk controllers, and the router to the PCI
> network card.  However, Xen 2.0.x doesn't support SMP in a way that
> makes sense in this case, and Xen 3.0 doesn't support accessing PCI
> devices directly from domU :-(
>
> > From what I read here, I don't have the impression that not many
> people use it or would want to.
>
> urs
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It is also my opinion, that this is a very important feature, at least 
for me.
With PCI passthrough you have the chance to consolidate your servers 
onto one machine and each machine has its own dedicated hardware!
Dieter

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