Re: [Xen-users] VT-d not working

[chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just happened to come across a pic I took of the BIOS option for VT-d.
The option would look similar to this if your motherboard supports
VT-d.

http://i42.tinypic.com/1zm2sz8.jpg

- chris

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:31 AM, chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From what you described, you do not have the proper bios option to
> enable vt-d. You can try checking for a bios update that may have the
> ability, but vendors like those are usually not a good bet.
>
> - chris
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Christian Holpert <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At 21:48 19.02.2010, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Any particular reason you need VT-d?
>>
>> I'd like to pass a pci-device to a winXP-domU. AFAIK VT-d is necessary for
>> that.
>>
>>> Which hardware are you going to pass-through to your VM's?
>>
>> I did have a lot of IRQ-problems passing a Fritz!Card PCI for vbox3 and
>> isdnlog to a domU running xen-sources-2.6.31-r10. Downgrading to 2.6.18-r12
>> I finally got it working with fcpci yesterday.
>>
>>> VT-d is only needed if you're doing directed IO to VM's.
>>
>> If I cant't get the pci-card to work with the winXP-domU I'll try the
>> USB-Version of that card. If I understood that correctly, USB passthrough
>> should work without VT-d.
>>
>> Thanks for your answer,
>> Christian
>>
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