[mythtv-users] VMWare on the backend. Viable solution?

Jon Whitear jon at whitear.org
Tue Jan 19 22:22:55 UTC 2010


> That's an even newer board...and so much newer than my "old" Gigabyte
> Core 2 board which supports VT-D. I would be highly surprised if your
> board didn't support it, like Greg wrote, it could be that the VT-D
> support was enabled together with regular VT support. I just found
> the
> following forum post with google:
> "I received an answer from Gigabyte technical support: VT-d is indeed
> supported by the GA-P55A-UD4P. It is enabled along with VT-x under
> the
> common "Virtualization" BIOS setting."
> Source:
> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/268442-12-p55a-ud4p-experience-needed#t1866399
> 
> This is the P55A-model, but still... :)

OK. I updated my BIOS to rev F6 with no difference. The only BIOS setting I have for virtualization is that one common "Enable virtualization" setting.

I shall try exporting a PCI device under KVM, and see how I go.

Cheers,

Jon



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