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Re: [Xen-users] Trouble enabling VT-D: "I/O virtualisation disabled"

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Trouble enabling VT-D: "I/O virtualisation disabled"
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:08:25 -0800 (PST)
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Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> 
> VT is not the same as VT-d, so if you enable VT you will essentially 
> have the "vmx" feature of the CPU enabled which will allow hvm, but that 
> has nothing to do with VT-d.
> What board do you own?
> 

It's a MSI X58 Platinum. The only virtualization option shown in the BIOS is
"Intel VT", but MSI support says that includes VT-d. I'm not sure of a way
to tell if it's actually enabled there or not.

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