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porker
on Jan 14, 2014
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AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a...
Though from the research I did, unless you're running a Type 1 hypervisor vt-d is not necessary (or usable). Type 2 hypervisors will use vt-x only.
wtallis
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What are your sources for that? VirtualBox seems to fall under "type 2", but supports PCI passthrough using VT-d on linux hosts.
porker
on Jan 15, 2014
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About 10 hours of crawling through forums, VMWare documentation and a couple of conversations with people about ESXi. So all of it pretty unreliable ;)
I'd love to see sources/evidence to the contrary.
venomsnake
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IOMMU is needed for VGA and PCI passtrough in general.
comex
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VT-d is still useful without any hypervisor, to guard against DMA attacks by malicious connected devices.
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