What you have specified is VT compatible.
Can you tell me what it is that you are trying to do so that I may give you a better answer?
Greg
Hi, I want to try the experimental VGA passthrough on this laptop. There has to be fully functional I/O virtualization (vt-d). I can not figure out this configuration fully supports it, ark intel says no. On the other side friend of mine says yes, even cpu support is enough. I am confused.
I'm sorry I just noticed that the chipset you specified (Intel® BD82HM67 PCH) has no virtualization support as well as no vPro support so no the cpu by it self will not be enough.
Greg
no chipset support (aka intel HM77) but with a i3720 cpu, vt-d works or not ?
Hi Andrea,
The i7 3720 CPU supports VT-x and VT-d.
Greg
I was under the impression that to have vt-d you needed 3 things
1) motherboard chipset support
2) processor support
3) bios support
is this correct, or 1) is no longer required
Andrea: Yes, that's exactly my question.
Btw. Greg can you explain why chipset isn't enough and what is your information source?
To use Intel Vt-d you need processor that support VT-d _AND_ chipset that support VT-d _AND_ motherboard BIOS that support Vt-d. If you wish to use VT-d you should find motherboard that have VT-d option in BIOS and have correct DMAR table. Some motherboards such as Asus and Gigabyte build on chipsets that supports VT-d but their BIOS don’t have VT-d support. You can find more detailed information at http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo
You can find the processors that support VT-d here http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?VTD=true
To passthrough video is most difficult thing because video cards have its own BIOS.
It is also good to know that you can’t passthrough your primary video card. You must have at least two video cards in you system. You asked about laptop, so in your case you can’t passthrough video to your VM.
You can passthrough your primary video card.
I've done this with Xen 4.1.3 as hypervisor with Debian Wheezy as dom0 passing-though an i7-3770 integrated GPU (HD4000) to a Windows 8 domU with no other GPU whatsoever. It should be noticed that in these situations you'll loose video output from the dom0 and will be to control it via SSH from another machine. For reference: Linux/BSD: sharing experiences: HowTo: Xen 4.1.3 Windows 8 HVM domU with Intel HD4000 VGA Passthrough on Debian Wheezy.
Intel iGPUs are very passthrough friendly as well as AMD's FIREGL and NVIDIA's QUADRO professional series. Outside of the professional series there are several reports stating difficulties with NVIDIA GeForce series. There are however tons of successful report on AMD Radeon passthrough - I for one passed a Radeon 5450 as secondary graphics card.
