From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: IOMMU setting Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:31:49 +0300 Message-ID: <20090405173149.GA23784@il.ibm.com> References: <20090404181823.GC9168@il.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com To: Eric Liu Return-path: Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.17.161]:56915 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344AbZDERe4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:34:56 -0400 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate1.de.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n35HYqV7026865 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:34:52 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n35HYpQE4186140 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:34:51 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n35HYpFD027519 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:34:51 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:14:44PM +0000, Eric Liu wrote: > > Yes it is AMD system, however KVM website does mention AMD iommu > support KVM device passthrough. I want to make sure my system has > this capability. That's 'AMD IOMMU', as opposed to AMD GART, which is not an isolation-capable IOMMU. I don't know if any chipsets with AMD's IOMMU have been released yet. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda | muli@il.ibm.com | +972-4-8281080 Manager, Virtualization and Systems Architecture Master Inventor, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/