On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 15:17 -0500, Greg Scott wrote:
Looking at virt-manager 0.8.6 on a RHEL test system here - it looks
like I can modify a guest VM with virt-manager. Select the VM I want,
go to the Information button, Add Hardware...PCI Host Device, and then
select the device I want to associate with that VM. Looks
straightforward enough - I wonder if the interface really means PCI or
if it also works with PCI-e?
Yes, it supports both.
Has anyone done this with a Brooktrout faxmodem and Windows VM?
And again - if I do this, it will be on brand new hardware and
everything today has the virtualization stuff these days.
CPU virtualization, yes. An IOMMU for device assignment, make sure you
do your homework. It can be hard enough to figure out if the hardware
supports it (
ark.intel.com is your friend), then if it does, still make
sure the vendor enables it. Both VT-d and AMD-Vi need BIOS support. If
the device doesn't support MSI, shared interrupts can also be a
nuisance. Thanks,
Alex