the ultimate fedora laptop?

Jud Craft craftjml at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 03:52:03 UTC 2009


>> > beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
>> > IOMMU support?  (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi.

Yes, that looks right.  IOMMU -is- VT-d.

> AIUI, standard HW virt support is AMD-V for AMD, and VT-x
> for intel.  above and beyond that, you have what *used*
> to be called "IOMMU".

Um...now I'm not sure what you mean.

I believe VT-d -is- IOMMU.  It allows redirection of memory access for
faster virtualization.  My lay grasp is bound to be inaccurate.




More information about the users mailing list