No IOMMU/DMAR with DELL 3020

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Thu Apr 9 08:38:43 UTC 2015


Hello,

El 09/04/15 a les 10.35, Konstantin Belousov ha escrit:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:28:10AM +0200, Gustau P?rez wrote:
>>    Yup, sorry for the error. I checked the micro in the ark and it has vt-d:
>>
>>               http://goo.gl/CZZRHz
> It only indicates that the CPU/northbridge has the hardware, but BIOS must
> do a work to configure it and to inform the OS about the configuration.
> Your BIOS did not.
>  
>>
>>    in the bios, there's only one option to enable virtualization
>> support, which is ticked.
>>
>>    The complete log is here:
>>
>>              http://dpaste.com/28FDMJQ
>>
> Dmesg would not give you any useful information there. A DMAR table
> is either present, or is it not. In the later case, OS cannot use the
> hardware, and if no option in BIOS is present, your only choice is to
> complain to the machine/BIOS vendor.

Check also if there's any BIOS update from the manufacturer.

Roger.



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