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On 01/10/2015 11:43, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> That is because the device itself contains an iommu.

Yes.

It could be an option:
   - we could flag the Linux system unsafe when the device does not have 
any IOMMU
   - we flag the Linux system safe when the device has an IOMMU