Re: [Xen-users] DomU not starting under pvhv2

[Peter <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/01/18 4:37 AM, Christopher Myers wrote:
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> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 22:01 +1300, Peter wrote:
> > I see (all?) the older CPUs don't have VT-d.  However some of the CPUs
> > where pvh is working do not report hvm_directio in xl info virt_caps
> > (e.g. the E5506 servers) though they do have VT-d available per
> > ark.intel.com.
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> Out of curiosity, just because the CPU supports VT-d doesn't mean that
> everything else in the system does or that it's enabled in the BIOS. My
> work computer, for example, supports it, but I had to explicitly enable
> it first. So just something to double-check.
Note: my issue is that the VM cannot start under pvh.

Is VT-d / hardware assisted IO required for pvh?

I don't need hardware assisted IO.  I just want to be able to start the 
VM under pvh rather than pv.
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