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Re: [Xen-users] DomU Direct Hardware access

To: Andrej Radonic <andrej.radonic@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] DomU Direct Hardware access
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:42:55 +0300
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, William Man <billybahlah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Andrej Radonic wrote:

> to have a domU which has exclusive access to a NIC. the driver is 
> encapsulated in the domU and ensures security and stability of the 
> overall system.

Only if you have an isolation capable IOMMU in the machine...

Cheers,
Muli

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