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?
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.
Thanks
- Greg
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On Behalf Of Greg Scott
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:33 PM
To: Alex Williamson; Eric Blake
Cc: virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Support for modems and other such physicalhardware?
Ideally, I'd like to do this one with virt-manager on RHEL. Or Fedora. Maybe
eventually on RHEV. If I do this, it would be new hardware - not sure if those Brooktrout
modems are PCI-e or just PCI.
- Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 11:56 AM
To: Eric Blake
Cc: Greg Scott; virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Support for modems and other such physical hardware?
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 10:38 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/15/2012 10:02 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
> Hi have a situation with a Windows 2003 server that uses a fax modem.
> I'd love to P2V this server but I need support for a Brooktrout
> faxmodem. The idea is, just pass anything to/from this hardware
> directly to the Windows guest VM, so the guest VM "thinks" it's
> connected to the faxmodem. I haven't run across anything that says
> I can do that with KVM virtual machines. Any ideas?
With new enough hardware, or if you don't mind the security risks with
older hardware where iommu was incomplete and could allow a malicious
guest to take over the host,
iommu is a requirement for PCI assignment, any partial support for iommu-less operation
has been disabled as it never worked upstream and presented a security hole. Google
guesses this is a PCI device, so you'll need a system with VT-d or AMD-Vi (if it's
indeed a legacy PCI device vs a PCI-e device, it's often easier to make those work on
VT-d).
Thanks,
Alex
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