On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 3:56:18 PM UTC-8, Mirosław Wojciechowski wrote:
> Ok, i Checking this, and in my bios not Vt-d fuctions. But i only inform is 
> that Qubes works well.
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> Regards.
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> sob., 5.03.2016 o 22:58 użytkownik Chris Laprise <[email protected]> 
> napisał:
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> On 03/05/2016 03:59 PM, Mirosław Wojciechowski wrote:
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> > This must be some error, i have enable intel virtualization in bios.
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> > On Virtualbox & VMWARE all working great. Qubes worki gratuluję to.
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> It may be that Vt-x (normal virtualization extensions) is enabled, but
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> without Vt-d (I/O virtualization)... I think this indicates that Lenovo
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> does not support IOMMU features in the Thinkpad Edge line. I have seen
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> reports about older Edge models having the Vt-d feature greyed-out in
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> the BIOS settings.
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> Qubes can work without IOMMU, but the level of security is reduced somewhat.
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> Chris

There are two reasons why VT-d is not supported.

1)
The Thinkpad Edge E531 has a HM77 chipset, which does not support VT-d. Only 
their "business" and "workstation" lines (e.g. T530, W530) uses the QM77 
chipset, which does support VT-d.

2)
The Thinkpad Edge E531 has a socketed motherboard (which is a "good" thing, in 
general, and allows swapping out CPU's for better ones, etc).

The 3632QM rPGA package (as opposed to BGA--a.k.a. "soldered") does NOT support 
VT-d. If you want VT-d, you will have to upgrade to a minimum of 3720QM for 
socketed CPU's. However, see reason #1 for why it would not work in your laptop.

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