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Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:     [201767]
a. Name of Feature:     vt-d support for KVM userspace
b. Feature Description
KVM userspace changes to enable pci-passthrough to a virtual machine

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:        LTC
Architectures:
x86
x86_64

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:       xSeries
Request Type:   Other
d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress
Sponsor Priority        2
f. Severity: Medium
IBM Confidential:       no
Code Contribution:      IBM code

3. Business Case
Platform exploitation.  Next gen HW will support this.  Provides a safe mechanism for giving direct
access to a PCI device in a  virtual machine

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Mike Wortman, wortman.com, 512-838-8582

Technical contact(s):
Ryan Harper, raharper.com

IBM Manager:
Warren Grunbok II, grunbok.com

Is this on target for a particular KVM release?

Changing component to "kvm", since it's not a xen userspace issue.

Chris Lalancette

iirc we do support vt-d even with rhel5.4, the main issue is hardware certification for the assigned devices. Can you please provide additional info for the devices? NIC should be easy, Graphic card will need additional work