I meant qemu-kvm not VirtualBox. I now see this table [1] that claims that Xen doesn't support IOMMU on rev.1 of our mobo have, but does on rev.2. I'll probably go with the alternative I have in mind then since, unless someone else has any ideas.
If not, thanks for the suggestions everyone! Sandro [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware#Motherboards_2 On Monday, 1 October 2018 15:04:34 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > Installation went fine except for a libxenlight config error of some kind. I > still can't enable IOMMU using either of the approaches described in that > Ubuntu thread, even though it successfully worked with raw Linux. > > What boot parameters did you add? I have the earlier rev.1 Sabertooth 990FX > mobo that you have. > > I'm not sure there's much advantage in sticking to Qubes without the hardware > acceleration over a Linux distro I'm more familiar with that has > virtualization working. I can just use accelerated VirtualBox instead of > accepting the PV overheads for the workflows I have in mind, but I'd > definitely like to use Qubes if I can get this working. > > Sandro > > On Monday, 1 October 2018 13:26:41 UTC-4, Sergio Matta wrote: > > Are you suggesting I just proceed with the installation regardless and try > > to set these parameters in the grub booting config after I get up and > > running? > > > > > > Sandro > > > > > Yes! And even if iommu does not works, you will be able to use Qubes 4 VM > > as PV. Networking will need to set up by hand and save those commands in > > files to start it automatically. > > You will have time to solve it or buy another motherboard. Mine is a US$150 > > used sabertooth 990fx rev.2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/31499e0a-dfd2-4b49-b000-0fb0752a2571%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
