On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:50:43AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > * On Tuesday 29 July 2008 18:47:35 Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I'm not so interested to go there right now, because while this code > > > is useful right now because the majority of systems out there lacks > > > VT-d/iommu, I suspect this code could be nuked in the long > > > run when all systems will ship with that, which is why I kept it all > > > > Actually at least on Intel platforms and if you exclude the lowest end > > VT-d is shipping universally for quite some time now. If you > > buy a Intel box today or bought it in the last year the chances are pretty > > high that it has VT-d support. > > I think you mean VT-x, which is virtualization extensions for the x86 > architecture. VT-d is virtualization extensions for devices (IOMMU).
I think Andi understood VT-d right but even if he was right that every reader of this email that is buying a new VT-x system today is also almost guaranteed to get a VT-d motherboard (which I disagree unless you buy some really expensive toy), there are current large installations of VT-x systems that lacks VT-d and that with recent current dual/quadcore cpus are very fast and will be used for the next couple of years and they will not upgrade just the motherboard to use pci-passthrough. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
