Alex Williamson wrote: [I removed qemu-devel because I'm not registered there] > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 19:40 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 07/26/2012 07:33 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: >>>> >>>> In the common case, on x86 (but I'm repeating myself), the iommu group >>>> includes just one device, yes? Could we make pci-stub an alias for the >>>> corresponding vfio steps? >>> >>> PCI bridges masking devices is not as uncommon as you'd like, that's >>> exactly why Andreas is using VFIO instead of KVM assignment. >> >> Well, we are using it in production for quite a while with few such reports. > > In the enterprise space, sure. In the hobbiest/power user space, I > suspect users are too often finding that it doesn't work and move on to > something else. Maybe we'll know if it's working better if we get more > complaints about random oddball devices not working because people are > actually able to get far enough to try it. I think it's the complete 900-chipset series of AMD (990FX, 990X [the one I'm using] and 970 - Socket AM3+), which provides the desktop user with payable IOMMU support (e.g. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/list.aspx?s=42&jid=7&p=2&v=26 ). I already read from other users having the same problem. Thanks, kind regards, Andreas -- 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
