silver565: Hmm, I was under the impression I could pass through the whole PCI bus? (DirectIO), that way the card would be passed through as well?
That is partly true, at the moment it is experimental support only - not supported. It might work, it might not, it's still a phase one release. Technically, the tested cards are a set of network cards. Anything outside of that is "good luck!" only, and may have some very... "interesting"... results after being used for a bit.
ah thank you for that. I've seen people use it with tv tuner cards, sound cards and all sorts of things. Hopefully I'll get lucky and it will work for me!
--If at first you don't succeed call it version 1.0--
Personally if it was my own computer that I was playing around with then i would give it a go, but if it was a client's PC I wouldn't run the risk.
The other downside of passthrough (more of an issue with multiple VM's on a single host) is that in order to fix most of the issues with the passthrough requires a restart of the host, which simply isn't do-able in enterprise level computing.
The project is a work thing, so not so much a problem of having a client. It looks like it's been put on hold for a while as more pressing matters have come up. I will post back when it gets done
thanks again!
--If at first you don't succeed call it version 1.0--
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