Re: [qubes-users] WHERE is VT-D implemented..?

2016-09-20 Thread J. Eppler
WHERE is VT-D implemented..? Intel VT-d is a hardware virtualization feature and it is implemented in hardware. Xen uses Intel VT-d. Xen does not call it Intel VT-d, instead Xen uses the more general term IOMMU (I/O MMU). For the rest look at Zrubi's answer. -- You received this message

Re: [qubes-users] WHERE is VT-D implemented..?

2016-09-20 Thread Zrubi
On 09/20/2016 02:44 AM, neilhard...@gmail.com wrote: > WHERE is VT-D protection against DMA attacks implemented..? VT-D is implemented in Xen and it is actually protecting PCI passtrough feature: https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough Because Qubes using Xen, all the VM's are protected

[qubes-users] WHERE is VT-D implemented..?

2016-09-19 Thread neilhardley
Quick question. WHERE is VT-D protection against DMA attacks implemented..? Is it implemented at a particular VM, such as "sys-net" or "sys-firewall" Or is this just built-in to the entire Qubes system regardless of which VM you are using..? If I were to run something like wget google.com