September 21, 20187 yr Hi Everyone Rather new to Unraid been running it for about a month. Im not able to find out how to enable IOMMU in my bios. Does anyone have any idea how to turn it on for this board?
September 21, 20187 yr Community Expert That looks like an i7-920? No vt-d support, but there are socket compatible xeon and i7 extreme chips that do support vt-d if your keeping costs down (please DYOR on mobo compatibility before purchasing). I had a x5670 xeon in my gigabyte ex58-ud5 before moving it to a x58 ROG GENE III, with the later being my first Unraid build.
September 21, 20187 yr As a side note: IOMMU is only needed when hardware passthrough is desired (e.g. for gaming). HVM allows VMs with virtualized hardware and remote desktop access
September 21, 20187 yr Author 45 minutes ago, tjb_altf4 said: That looks like an i7-920? No vt-d support, but there are socket compatible xeon and i7 extreme chips that do support vt-d if your keeping costs down (please DYOR on mobo compatibility before purchasing). I had a x5670 xeon in my gigabyte ex58-ud5 before moving it to a x58 ROG GENE III, with the later being my first Unraid build. Thanks. No form of vt-d in the bios. Been searching. Thank for the info.
September 21, 20187 yr Author 47 minutes ago, tjb_altf4 said: That looks like an i7-920? No vt-d support, but there are socket compatible xeon and i7 extreme chips that do support vt-d if your keeping costs down (please DYOR on mobo compatibility before purchasing). I had a x5670 xeon in my gigabyte ex58-ud5 before moving it to a x58 ROG GENE III, with the later being my first Unraid build. Yip it is the 920. I'll see what I can find thank you.
September 21, 20187 yr Keep in mind: both motherboard and processor need vt-d support to make this work.
September 21, 20187 yr As stated before in this thread, both CPU and mitherboard (chipset) and BIOS need to support vt-d. I have had notherboards equal to yours, and I researched it quite alot. I found that X58 chipset does support vt-d but is not included as an option i BIOS. i7-920 or other CPU's in the serie support vt-d. But a Xeon in lga 1366 should. Check on intel ark before investing. But back to your chipset. I found a beta bios somewhere, where i cant remember, but it claimed to give the option in BIOS to enable vt-d. But my advice is to invest in either a workstation motherboard or server motherboard. Since you still have to invest in a CPU anyways, maybe its time to upgrade. Should you live in DK close to Copenhagen, then i have a CPU fitting your board that support vt-d, but then you still need the special BIOS... Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk
September 21, 20187 yr Author Thank you everyone for the info. This forum is awesome. As @bonienlsaid this isn't needed for virtualising so ill be fine for a while. Specially since this server is running fine for what I need at the moment. Thank you @Alphahelixunfortunately I'm in Australia. I'll look around for a similar bios update and see what I can do but I can live with it for now.
September 22, 20187 yr My last computer had an i7-920 in it (Asus P6t). I ebay'd a Xeon X5670 and dropped it in. I was half-hoping for Registered RAM support but it didn't happen, but I did get the faster clocks and an extra two cores. Well worth the ~$40 shipped it cost me. Ever since getting into unRaid, I often wish I hadn't sold it off.
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