On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IOMMU_SUPPORT.html >> >> which seem to indicate that I should see an IOMMU option somewhere in >> the drivers section of the kernel config. I do not, however, find that >> right now which is why I came here to ask. > > It looks to me like the specific option CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT was just > added for kernel 3.1, so you won't see it until then. It even mentions > it on the page you linked to:: "found in Linux kernels: 3.1-rc+HEAD" > > It appears virtualbox-modules 4.1.0 doesn't check this. Maybe 4.1.2 is > developed against the 3.1 kernel... Maybe you should switch to the > latest git kernel, if you dare, or maybe you could mask the vbox > modules 4.1.2 and use 4.1.0 instead? I'm not a virtualbox user so I > have no idea if that's a reasonable suggestion or not, but I'm just > throwing it out there. :) > > Thanks for the insights Paul. I'll roll back to a slightly earlier version of Virtualbox which will likely solve the problem.
Cheers, Mark
