Desktop Boards — Compatibility with Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)

Desktop Boards

Compatibility with Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) consists of technology components that support virtualization of platforms based on Intel® Processors, thereby enabling the running of multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions.

There are two types of virtualization:

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)

Improves the fundamental flexibility and robustness of traditional software-based virtualization solutions by accelerating key functions of the virtualized platform, including:

Speeding up the transfer of platform control between the guest operating systems (OSs) and the virtual machine manager (VMM)/hypervisor
Enabling the VMM to uniquely assign I/O devices to guest OSs
Optimizing the network for virtualization with adapter-based acceleration

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d)

Provides additional performance, security and flexibility by providing the VMM with the following capabilities:

I/O device assignment
DMA remapping
Interrupt remapping
Reliability

Intel® Desktop Boards require the following components to support Intel® VT or Intel® VT-d:

Intel® Processor that supports Intel VT
BIOS with Intel VT or VT-d support (found on the Security menu in BIOS setup)
A third party VMM (virtual machine manager) may also be required

To see if your processor supports Intel VT, refer to Does my processor support Intel® Virtualization Technology?

The following Intel® Desktop Boards support Intel VT:

Chipset	Desktop Board
X79	DX79SI, DX79SR, DX79TO
H77, Q77, Z77	DH77DF, DH77EB, DH77KC, DQ77CP, DQ77KB, DQ77MK, DZ77BH-55K, DZ77GA-70K, DZ77RE-75K, DZ77SL-50K
B75, Z75	DB75EN, DZ75ML-45K
Z68	DZ68ZV, DZ68DB, DZ68BC, DZ68AF, DZ68PL
Q67, P67, H67	DQ67EP, DQ67OW, DQ67SW, DP67DE, DP67BG, DP67BA, DH67VR, DH67GD, DH67CL, DH67CF, DH67BL
B65	DB65AL
H61	DH61AG, DH61AGL, DH61BE, DH61CR, DH61DL, DH61SA, DH61WW, DH61ZE
X58	DX58SO2, DX58SO, DX58OG
Q57	DQ57TM, DQ57TML
H55, P55	DH55HC, DH55PJ, DH55TC, DP55KG, DP55SB, DP55WB, DP55WG
X48	DX48BT2
G45, P45, Q45	DG45FC, DG45ID, DP45SG, DQ45CB, DQ45EK
B43, G43, P43, Q43	DB43LD, DG43GT, DG43NB, DG43RK, DP43BF, DP43BFL, DP43TF, DQ43AP
G41	DG41AN, DG41BI, DG41CN, DG41KR, DG41MJ, DG41RQ, DG41TX, DG41TY, DG41WV
X38	DX38BT
P35, Q35	DP35DP, DQ35JO, DQ35MP
G33	DG33BU, DG33FB
G31	DG31GL, DG31PR

The following Intel® Desktop Boards support Intel VT with Directed I/O:

Chipset	Desktop Board
X79	DX79SI, DX79SR, DX79TO
H77, Q77, Z77	DH77DF, DH77EB, DH77KC, DQ77CP, DQ77KB, DQ77MK, DZ77BH-55K, DZ77GA-70K, DZ77RE-75K, DZ77SL-50K
B75, Z75	DB75EN, DZ75ML-45K
Q67	DQ67EP, DQ67OW, DQ67SW
H61	DH61AGL
Q57	DQ57TM, DQ57TML
Q45	DQ45CB, DQ45EK
Q35	DQ35JO, DQ35MP

Related Topic:
Intel® Virtualization Technology

Solution ID: CS-030922
Last Modified: 07-Mar-2013
Date Created: 04-Oct-2009