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Re: [Xen-users] What is necessary for AMD IOMMU support

To: Carsten Schiers <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What is necessary for AMD IOMMU support
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:48:20 +0300
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:35:44PM +0200, Carsten Schiers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering, what exactly is necessary to use IOMMU with AMD CPUs. 
> From what
> CPU family it's on the chip and are other things necessary, like a certain 
> chipset on 
> the motherboard?
> 
> I own a Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3 board and AMD 4050e CPU. I can enable/disable 
> virtualization
> in the BIOS. Will that be enough to switch on IOMMU and run a non-PV Windows?
> 

Please check this wiki page:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough

It should have more information for you.

-- Pasi


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