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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IOMMU_SUPPORT.html |
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>> which seem to indicate that I should see an IOMMU option somewhere in |
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>> the drivers section of the kernel config. I do not, however, find that |
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>> right now which is why I came here to ask. |
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> It looks to me like the specific option CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT was just |
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> added for kernel 3.1, so you won't see it until then. It even mentions |
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> it on the page you linked to:: "found in Linux kernels: 3.1-rc+HEAD" |
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> It appears virtualbox-modules 4.1.0 doesn't check this. Maybe 4.1.2 is |
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> developed against the 3.1 kernel... Maybe you should switch to the |
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> latest git kernel, if you dare, or maybe you could mask the vbox |
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> modules 4.1.2 and use 4.1.0 instead? I'm not a virtualbox user so I |
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> have no idea if that's a reasonable suggestion or not, but I'm just |
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> throwing it out there. :) |
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Thanks for the insights Paul. I'll roll back to a slightly earlier |
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version of Virtualbox which will likely solve the problem. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |