Re: [libvirt] PCI Passthrough

[Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca gmail com>]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 02:08, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:59:10PM -0700, Aaron Clausen wrote:
>> Okay, barring VT-D being supported (which it doesn't look like it is
>> on the server in question), is there any way to get a SCSI tape drive
>> to work in a Windows guest?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> You'd like need to go for a software solution where the host OS has the
> tape drive, and runs some network daemon that the guest can connect
> to in order to use the tape drive

I'll give passthrough a shot.  The processor apparently supports VT-D,
though there's no mention of it specifically in the bios.  If not,
I'll probably just go with Amanda.

-- 
Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca gmail com