Re: [Qemu-devel] updated: kvm PCI todo wiki

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:45:36PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/21/2013 12:48 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >Hey guys,
> >I've put up a wiki page with a kvm PCI todo list,
> >mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope
> >to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing
> >in KVM:
> >
> >http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PCITodo
> >
> >This page could cover all PCI related activity in KVM,
> >it is very incomplete.
> >We should probably add e.g. IOMMU related stuff.
> >
> >Note: if there's no developer listed for an item,
> >this just means I don't know of anyone actively working
> >on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to.
> >
> >I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list
> >would add their names so we can communicate better.  If others like this
> >wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any.
> >
> >It would be especially nice to add testing projects.
> >
> >Also, feel free to add links to bugzillas items.
> >
> On a related note, did anyone ever tried to test MSI / MSI-X with a
> windows guest? I've tried to enable it for virtio but for some
> reason Windows didn't wanted to enable it. AHCI was even worse; the
> stock Windows version doesn't support MSI and the Intel one doesn't
> like our implementation :-(.
> Anyone ever managed to get this to work?
> 
> If not it'd be a good topic for the wiki ...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hannes

I put some AHCI - related things there: making intel's
AHCI driver work with QEMU would be nice - e.g.
for windows XP guests. It might also help uncover some bugs.

> -- 
> Dr. Hannes Reinecke                 zSeries & Storage
> address@hidden                              +49 911 74053 688
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
> GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)