[libvirt-users] No IOMMU found. Unable to assign device

Robin Axelsson gu99roax at student.chalmers.se
Thu Apr 21 19:23:07 UTC 2011


This page (

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo

) also lists motherboards that has the AMD IOMMU feature. The MSI 
890FXA-GD70 is no longer in beta, i.e. IOMMU now comes with the official 
BIOS firmware from 1.8 and up.

On 2011-04-21 20:47, David White wrote:
> That's correct.  You need a mainboard that supports Intel VT-d or 
> AMD-Vi.  Start here 
> (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-030922.htm ) 
> for Intel.   Not sure where to find a list of AMD boards.   Without 
> IOMMU you need to rely on emulation.
>
> -dmw
>
> On 04/21/2011 09:57 AM, Marco van Beek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am playing around with PCI passthrough and came across some posts 
>> that said you could not do PCI passthrough unless you had IOMMU 
>> hardware. which it would appear I don't
>>
>> Is this the case? Am I flogging a dead horse?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marco
>>
>
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