PCI-Device in VM

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  • June 29, 2011 at 10:40 #316
    Anonymous
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    hi all,
    i have (maybe a stupid) question:
    Is it possible to devellop a driver for a PCIe device in a vitual machine? How can i make the PCI device visible to VM/or VirtualBox, not to the host system?

    thnx for your responses

    June 29, 2011 at 11:18 #1806
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    As far as I know, it is only possible for the USB devices.
    However, you can try making a “dummy PCI driver” that will forward the requests to a named pipe and then develop the high-level logic in user-mode. However, for certain device types this might be impossible due to performance constraints.

    July 1, 2011 at 05:31 #1807
    Anonymous
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    Seems that vSphere (from VMWAre) has a PCI -pass through option. Its called VMDirectIO. I will try the test version (60-day free).

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