Thanks James,
After a thorough check, I found that I had been mixing up the specs for
i7-920 and i7-920-XM - the latter one supporting VT-d at a lower clock
speed and a different socket. Seems that Intel does not support VT-d on
i7 using the 3-channel socket 1366, and only one socket-2011: i7-3820.
Just a final issue: is the Intel TXT (Trusted Execution Technology)
important for XEN HVM/PVM? Am planning to try out GPU-passthrough to
Windows. That should conclude my speculations at this time.
Kind regards,
Johann.
Þann 6.9.2012 16:38, skrifaði James Bulpin:
Johann wrote:
Bios menus:
I was wrong, the new bios (f13s) changed the menu item to
"Virtualization Technology" rather than the older Smart Virtualization.
The descriptive text is "When enabled, a VMM can utilize the additional
hardware capabilities provided by virtualization technology" (is this
text the only upgrade from f13 to f13s? ;-)
OK, that's VT-x (VMX) then.
I assume you can have VMX support without having full VT-d support? At
least, this is what I will assume in my new request to Gigabyte.
Correct. VMX has been around for longer than VT-d. VMX is necessary to run HVM
guests on Xen, but it only handles trapping certain privileged instructions.
VT-d adds support for DMA remapping and protection necessary for HVM guests to
utilise passed-through PCI hardware devices. Without VT-d you can still run HVM
guests with VMX but you won't be able to pass through PCI devices to them,
you'll have to use paravirtualised I/O.
Cheers,
James
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