On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:58:46 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:50:43AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > * On Tuesday 29 July 2008 18:47:35 Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I'm not so interested to go there right now, because while this code > > > > is useful right now because the majority of systems out there lacks > > > > VT-d/iommu, I suspect this code could be nuked in the long > > > > run when all systems will ship with that, which is why I kept it all > > > > > > Actually at least on Intel platforms and if you exclude the lowest end > > > VT-d is shipping universally for quite some time now. If you > > > buy a Intel box today or bought it in the last year the chances are pretty > > > high that it has VT-d support. > > > > I think you mean VT-x, which is virtualization extensions for the x86 > > architecture. VT-d is virtualization extensions for devices (IOMMU). > > I think Andi understood VT-d right but even if he was right that every > reader of this email that is buying a new VT-x system today is also > almost guaranteed to get a VT-d motherboard (which I disagree unless > you buy some really expensive toy), there are current large > installations of VT-x systems that lacks VT-d and that with recent > current dual/quadcore cpus are very fast and will be used for the next > couple of years and they will not upgrade just the motherboard to use > pci-passthrough. Today, very inexpensive desktops (for example, Dell OptiPlex 755) have VT-d support. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
