Can KVM PassThrough specifically my PCI cards to fully-virt'd KVM Guests with my CPU? Yet?

2010-01-25 Thread Ben DJ
Hi, I have a box with an AMD Phenom II X4 920 CPU Reading http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#What_do_I_need_to_use_KVM.3F, I've verified with 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' that the CPU has the AMD-V svm extension. I'm specifically interested in whether or not this CPU's capabilities will allow PCI

Re: Can KVM PassThrough specifically my PCI cards to fully-virt'd KVM Guests with my CPU? Yet?

2010-01-25 Thread Ben DJ
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com wrote: You do need iommu support in your system. Unfortunately there are very few AMD motherboards that have an iommu. Only 1 server level board I know of has one and is close to hitting the markets. So chances are you don't have

Re: Can KVM PassThrough specifically my PCI cards to fully-virt'd KVM Guests with my CPU? Yet?

2010-01-26 Thread Ben DJ
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com wrote: Nope. When support was being developed, there was, but it was never merged, and I highly doubt the patches would be remotely able to be applied at this point with all the code churn qemu has had. Then, I'm stuck on xen.