December 11, 20169 yr Hi, newbie trying to to figured out if my CPU setup is going to support virtualization. Went into the BIOS and I turned on VT-x. I'm not seeing anything related to IOMMU. I have a Intel Core i7 980X. Says IOMMU is Disables in the unRAID info screen Question is, how can I tell if my CPU or board support IOMMU? Additionally, is IOMMU required for virtualization? My goal is to have one CPU running plex unRAID Windows 7 VM for MAME Cabinet Umbutu Server for web dev testing Hardware Core i7 980X Extreme EVGA X58 FTW3 motherboard 24GB OCZ Reaper Edition 12GB RAM PNY Quadro 4000 video card
December 11, 20169 yr The Core i7-980X doesn't support VT-d so it won't matter if your board supports it (unlikely). Since you have VT-x you can run VMs, but you can't do hardware pass-through. I'm guessing by MAME you mean an arcade simulator, and if you want to hook up something like that to a TV/monitor then you'd need to pass a video card into the VM. If you were planning to RDP/VNC into the Ubuntu VM then that would work fine.
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