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

Jon Whitear jon at whitear.org
Mon Jan 25 22:25:09 UTC 2010


> 
> Did you try with latest qemu-kvm v0.12.2 released 4 days ago? There's
> a change in this version which should deny starting a guest with PCI
> passthrough if no IOMMU is present...earlier versions would allow the
> guest to start, but the passthrough would not work. I suppose this
> should give you a definite answer if VT-d is enabled on your system.
> 
> 

Just upgraded:-

jon at server ~ $ qemu -version
QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.2 (qemu-kvm-0.12.2), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

jon at server ~ $ sudo ./start.media
Password: 
device: 07:01.0: driver="pci-assign" host="07:01.0"
device: 07:01.2: driver="pci-assign" host="07:01.2"
No IOMMU found.  Unable to assign device "07:01.0"
Failed to deassign device "07:01.0" : Invalid argument
Error initializing device pci-assign

Oh well, no VT-d after all.

Thanks for all the tips along the way, Kenni, but it looks like I'll be saving up for a HD Homerun if I want to virtualise my back end.

Cheers,

Jon



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