Yes it is AMD system, however KVM website does mention AMD iommu support KVM 
device passthrough.
I want to make sure my system has this capability. 


Regards
Eric

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> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:18:23 +0300
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: IOMMU setting
>
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:16:50AM +0000, Eric Liu wrote:
>>
>> Is there a quick way to check if system has IOMMU enabled in Linux?
>>
>> I saw the following messages in /var/log/messages:
>>
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: PCI-DMA: aperture base @ f4000000 size 65536 KB
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: init_memory_mapping: 00000000f4000000-00000000f8000000
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: last_map_addr: f8000000 end: f8000000
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU.
>> Apr 3 21:03:16 kernel: PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP 
>> aperture
>>
>> Does this mean IOMMU is enabed? And i don't need anything like
>> iommu=force in boot option, right?
>
> It means that you are running on an AMD system, and that this system
> has a GART. You need an isolation-capable IOMMU such as Intel's VT-d
> for KVM in-tree device passthrough.
>
> Cheers,
> Muli
> --
> Muli Ben-Yehuda | [email protected] | +972-4-8281080
> Manager, Virtualization and Systems Architecture
> Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
>
> SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference
> http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/

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