the ultimate fedora laptop?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Jud Craft wrote:

> > beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
> > IOMMU support?  (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi.  are
> > laptops shipping with that feature these days?  is it immediately
> > useful?)
>
> As for VT-d and AMD-Vi, I believe these -are- the standard hardware
> virtualization support.  They're definitely available in a lot of
> Intel processors (even some Atom processors), and isn't there some
> intel page that lists features of all their processor lines?  You
> can check for VT-d in whichever one for the laptop.

  not as i understand it.  AIUI, standard HW virt support is AMD-V for
AMD, and VT-x for intel.  above and beyond that, you have what *used*
to be called "IOMMU", which allows guest machines to directly use
peripheral devices.  am i misunderstanding this?

rday
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