I am considering building a new PC based on Ivy-bridge CPU. Have considered i5-3550 or i7-3770 which both support VT-d.
However I am not sure whether all motherboards/chipsets support this funktion as well. It's sure that the brand new Q77 does, but there is little infomation which other chipsets, i.e. H77 and if the motherboards/BIOS enable this feature.
Example: ASUS P8H77-M PRO: in the manual just says that the BIOS-feature "Intel Virtualisation Technology" can be enabled/disabled. There is no word about if that means only VT-x or both VT-x + VT-d. Is there anybody kowing more details or even a list of motherboards which support VT-d and which functions are compatible with VBox? CPU selection is easy as Intel specifies that.
With kind regards,
Ingo
Hardware which supports Intel VT-d (mainboard)
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Re: Hardware which supports Intel VT-d (mainboard)
Any board designed to work with a CPU supporting the extensions is expected to support toggling those extensions on or off.