VT-d or IOMMU -- any motherboard?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:59:07AM -0700, William Park wrote:
> I'm interested in trying out VT-d (in Intel) or IOMMU (in AMD).  From reading, 
> AMD 890FX chipset has support for IOMMU.  But, most 890FX motherboards are 
> "consumer" grade, and they have tendency to lie or are flaky.  And, there is no 
> "consumer" chipset (ie. P55, P67, X58, etc) from Intel that supports VT-d.  X58 
> was to support it, but Intel said that was misprint.  This means going with 
> Intel "server" chipset.
> 
> Has anyone used VT-d on Intel platform?  If so, which brand/model?

It seems anything that is vPro certified should have vt-d.  Some others
do as well.

This lists some known to work:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo

Some X58 boards do in fact work with vt-d.  The main problem has been
broken BIOSs.  That link above shows a couple of X58 asus boards that
now work using BETA BIOS releases.

The Qx5 chipsets seem to be the most common to work, since those are
usually the ones used in vPro machines.

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