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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PCI passthrough
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:46:02 +0300
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On 09/24/2009 03:01 AM, Matt Piermarini wrote:
>
> If anybody has any ideas I can try, I'd surely appreciate it.  My host 
> does NOT have vt-d capable hardware, and I'm not even sure that is 
> requirement - is it?  Host is an Intel ICH10/P45/Q6600.
>
>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20

"bus master" means the card can dma, which requires an iommu.

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