thinking about Haswell desktop

[William Park]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:55:33PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:44:49AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > - most LGA 1150 chipsets (i.e. Haswell-supporting) can support VT-d, but 
> >   many BIOSes don't.  Only Q87-chipset motherboards seem to be good bets;  
> >   there are not a lot of them.  What a silly, stupid situation.

Also, all Qxx board are mATX form factor.

> > 
> > - see <http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2326402>
> > 
> > Any thoughts / hints?
> 
> If you want vt-d, it seems that the xen users think asrock is the best
> bet.  They claim all boards with Intel Z87, H87, Q87 and B85 chipsets
> made by asrock can do vt-d assuming you pick a CPU that can too.
> I have no experience with asrock so far.  I always use asus boards,
> but apparently most of those don't do vt-d except the high end (socket
> 1366 or 2011 these days, and even there there were bios issues that
> needed resolving to get it working).

Asrock?  I don't recommend them.  Horrible RMA experience...

> 
> Now much as vt-d is neat, I have no idea what I would use it for at home.
> vt-x on the other hand is very useful for virtual machines in general.

I thought it's VT-d (IOMMU for AMD) which enables you to assign /dev/sdj
on host as /dev/sda on VM guest.
-- 
William
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