libvirt users - Apr 2011 - No IOMMU found. Unable to assign device

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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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
>