I was looking at setting up a box to run ESXi 4.0 headless, and then TV server in a VM on top of that. So it would need access to the tv cards, which are PCI.
just tried it on one of my systems, AMD Asus m2n-sli-deluxe (nvidia nforce 570 chipset), latest bios, Athlon X2 5400 processor.
"virtualisation support" is turned on the in BIOS. however I think this is VT-x not VT-d / IOMMU.
in ESX, I cannot even start to try to PCI cards to a VM, I get "Host does not support passthrough configuration". So I think my mobo doesn't have what it takes.
what motherboards have people used? What lists have you consulted to be sure you have VT-d / IOMMU support?
thanks
Ian
just tried it on one of my systems, AMD Asus m2n-sli-deluxe (nvidia nforce 570 chipset), latest bios, Athlon X2 5400 processor.
"virtualisation support" is turned on the in BIOS. however I think this is VT-x not VT-d / IOMMU.
in ESX, I cannot even start to try to PCI cards to a VM, I get "Host does not support passthrough configuration". So I think my mobo doesn't have what it takes.
what motherboards have people used? What lists have you consulted to be sure you have VT-d / IOMMU support?
thanks
Ian