Does KVM PCI Device Assignment allow guests to access firewire?

[Wayne Feick]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment

The work on PCI device assignment looks like it might allow guests to
access a firewire device. Can anyone confirm or deny whether that will
be the case?

Specifically, I currently run Linux as my desktop and Windows in a
VMware guest for software like Adobe Premiere. This arrangement lets me
do video editing, but not video capture from firewire since VMware
doesn't support it. If KVM allows me to run a Windows guest that will be
able to do capture video from the firewire port, I'll be switching away
from VMware.

Wayne.

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi Wayne,

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:38 -0800, Wayne Feick wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
>
> The work on PCI device assignment looks like it might allow guests to
> access a firewire device. Can anyone confirm or deny whether that will
> be the case?

Personally, I have no idea - when we have all the bits in place you
could just give it a try.
> Specifically, I currently run Linux as my desktop and Windows in a
> VMware guest for software like Adobe Premiere. This arrangement lets
> me do video editing, but not video capture from firewire since VMware
> doesn't support it. If KVM allows me to run a Windows guest that will
> be able to do capture video from the firewire port, I'll be switching
> away from VMware.

You could re-send all this to [e-mail] - you might get a
definite answer, or even someone interested in working on it and needing
testers.

Cheers,
Mark.