On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 12:41:23 +0000 "'Robin Murison' via qubes-users" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My hardware suppliers are sure my desktop supports IOMMU and yet when > I try to install Qubes 4 the installation says it does not. My basic > question is that error reported based on a white list or on the actual > presence or absence of the feature. > > I have checked with the hardware company that IOMMU is available and > does work and I have also checked with the company that built my > machine that I have all the appropriate settings turned on in the > BIOS. > > Both say I am doing the right thing and that IOMMU should be working > and I do not see my processor or mother board specifically on the > supported hardware list. > > my machine is custom built: > > Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 5350 Quad Core APU (2.05GHz/AM1) & > Radeon™ HD8400 > Motherboard ASUS® AM1M-A: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s) > > Thanks for any help > > > Robin > Hi Robin, Qubes does a hardware test to determine if the IOMMU works. According to Wikipedia's "List of IOMMU-supporting hardware" page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware there are some ASUS motherboards that do not work correctly with IOMMU support. You may be unlucky. Mike. -- 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/20190304140755.3e4f47d4.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
