Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Saturday 27 September 2008, Han, Weidong wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> the patches of passthrough/VT-d on kvm.git are already checked in. >> With Amit's userspace patches, you can assign device to guest. You >> can have a try. > > Does that mean I need VT-d support in hardware? All I have to test > with right now is an AMD Phenom X4 with a 780g+sb700 system. Don't > think it has an iommu, and I'd find it odd if the intel VT-d code > "just worked" on amd's hardware. >
Yes, currently you need VT-d support in hardware to assign device. Randy (Weidong) >> Randy (Weidong) >> >> Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: >>> I'm very interested in being able to pass a few devices through to >>> kvm guests. I'm wondering what exactly is working now, and how I >>> can start testing it? >>> >>> the latest kvm release doesn't seem to include any support for it in >>> userspace, so I can't test it with that... >>> >>> Basically what I want to do is assign a two or three physical nics >>> (100mb and GiB) to one vm, some tv tuner cards to another. >>> >>> Also, I'm wondering if AMD's iommu in the SB750 southbridge is >>> supported yet? Or if anyone is working on it? >>> >>> -- >>> Thomas Fjellstrom >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- > Thomas Fjellstrom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
