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I have a chipset which supports VT-d (Intel X58) and, according to my motherboard manufacturers, VT-d is enabled in the BIOS and listed as "Intel VT." The problem is that xm dmesg shows "I/O virtualisation disabled" and I get this error message when I try to create a domU with a pci device assigned: ''Error: failed to assign device: maybe the platform doesn''t

After upgrading to a 64bit system with new hardware, running 3d games with wine now results in my entire system becoming unresponsive until I kill wine (wineserver -k). I am using Arch Linux with the bin32-wine package from AUR, and have experienced this problem with wine 1.1.10, .12, and .13. Wine does use 100% of a single core, but it did this with my previous system as well. I've gotten

I am happy to announce that I have successfully (and finally!) been able to pass a PCIe graphics card via VT-d to a Windows XP HVM DomU. About time! Config: -Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad-Core, G0 stepping (I think) -Intel DQ35JO Motherboard, Q35 Chipset, BIOS v.991 (1/9/09), VT and VT-d enabled -nVidia 9500GT (for VT-d passthrough - DomU) -nVidia GeForce2 MX200 (Dom0 console) -Xen (build:

I am happy to announce that I have successfully (and finally!) been able to pass a PCIe graphics card via VT-d to a Windows XP HVM DomU. About time! Config: -Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad-Core, G0 stepping (I think) -Intel DQ35JO Motherboard, Q35 Chipset, BIOS v.991 (1/9/09), VT and VT-d enabled -nVidia 9500GT (for VT-d passthrough - DomU) -nVidia GeForce2 MX200 (Dom0 console) -Xen (build: