On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:38:00PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I wanted to know the status of PCI device assignment. > > > > As far as I can see in the webpage and in the mailing list, it seems to be > > working ok if you have VT-d support on the motherboard and cpu. But if it isn't > > too much trouble, I wanted some confirmation about this, since I'm not sure and > > I don't want to buy hardware to test this when there is no way it's going to > > work :) > > Yes, it works if you have VT-d support (Intel) or AMD IOMMU (note this > is different than the AMD GART that's often used as an IOMMU). The > Intel boxes are a lot easier to find. For an AMD IOMMU you just need to buy a Mainboard with the AMD 890FX chipset. As far as I know all available boards support IOMMU with the latest BIOS. On the server-side, look for an AMD SR56x0 chipset [where x=(5|7|9)]. Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
