RE: [Xen-users] AMD-V or VT

["Dustin Henning" <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

        If you search the archives, you will find that it is a bit
complicated.  I don't know if I'm getting the details right, but I think
basically you can pass PCI through to HVM guests without VT-D, but you need
VT-D to pass through to PV guests.  If this is accurate, it may also apply
to AMD-V without IOMMU.  I could be all out of whack, though, and it may be
that VT-D doesn't even work for PV without hacking, I don't remember the
details, and I haven't done it.
        Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian P. Martin
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 13:32
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] AMD-V or VT

> 
> VT currently because you get PCI Pass-through support. New DDR3
> Opterons
> will offer PCI Passthrough later this year but I assume you are buying
> now.
> 

Does that mean that current and older Opterons *can't* pass a PCI device
through to a guest, or that they don't do it as efficiently as on the Intel
VT machines?  I've been pulling my hair out trying to get a fully
virtualized guest access to a PCI card on an Opteron 1220.


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