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[Xen-users] PCI Passthrough without VT-d

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Subject: [Xen-users] PCI Passthrough without VT-d
From: Jan Češčut <Jan.Cescut@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:29:22 +0100
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As I read XEN supports assigning a pci device to an unprivileged domain without hardware supporting it. Has anyone already tried it? Are there any security risks? If I understand correctly how PCI passthrough works the performance should be the same as using the pci device in native mode. Is it so? I have a PCI video card which would like to use inside a VM running Windows XP.

 

Thanks and have a nice day,

Jan

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