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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:14:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CCC361.6020600@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CCB8BA.6060007@superbug.demon.co.uk>

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT
> features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features.
>   

No, VT-d (as opposed to VT) is a chipset feature which allows the
hypervisor to control who's allowed to DMA where.  So you'd need a very
new machine with a VT-d capable chipset (which would also have VT, since
all new processors do).

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22  5:23 [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22  5:23 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22  5:34 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22  5:40   ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22  8:37     ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:16       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22  6:25   ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 10:35     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22  9:51       ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:08         ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 10:23           ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:23             ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:09               ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 13:15                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:32                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:11             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-27 17:54     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-28  6:51       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-28 11:18         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-22  6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-22  6:03   ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-24 12:20     ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-22 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 16:48   ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:59     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 17:07       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 19:46         ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 20:43           ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 22:04             ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 21:25               ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:25                 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:41                 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-23  5:34                 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 21:45               ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:34       ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 17:34         ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-22 22:15   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:15     ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:20     ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 22:29       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:29         ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:34         ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 23:14         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-08-23  0:47           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-23  0:38             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-23  2:34               ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-27 17:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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