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.

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 Brian Jackson
On Monday 25 January 2010 21:11:12 Ben DJ wrote: 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

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?

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 00:22:25 Ben DJ wrote: 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