You do know that PCI Passthrough for Xen 3 has been removed right?
While it would be *nice* for a Dev network a port would introduce issues of bugs showing up in XEN and not in the real router and reverse.
Lets just keep it how it is, a PC router and nothing more
From what I understand, it has not been removed, but is disabled due to some problems, and will return at some point. I would guess that it will be available again, long before any sort of MT port could occur.
I think it would be *very nice* for a dev network, significantly less so for a production network (although not _completely_ useless). As for it exposing Xen and/or MT bugs, how is that a bad thing?
I agree that MT should remain a PC router (and not become a server, etc...). But, I don't agree that the PC should necessarily remain a physical box.
I suppose it's a semi-moot point anyway, since processors that can run a fake ring-0 are available from Intel now, and I suspect MT should run fine as is on such a system (I don't know if anyone has tried yet, though). Still, it would be nice to be able to run it on my existing hardware.
--Eric