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Re: [Xen-users] How do you give USB to a Windows domU?

To: James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How do you give USB to a Windows domU?
From: "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:20:51 +0800
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For Windows HVM guests, you only need VT. If you want to pass through a PCI device to HVM guests, you need VT-d. I don't think you need VT-d to passthrough a usb device to Windows virtual machines.

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:16 AM, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:03 +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> Then he needs VT-d for his Windows Vista HVM domU.
>

Not sure how you jumped to hear. VT-d is should already be enabled.

James





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