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This looks for existance of DMAR (Intel) and IVRS (AMD) files under /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/, as a sign that the platform has IOMMU present & enabled in the BIOS. If these are present and /sys/kernel/iommu_groups does not contain any entries this is taken as a sign that the kernel has not enabled the IOMMU currently. If no ACPI tables are found we can't distinguish between disabled in BIOS and not present in the hardware, so we have to give the user a generic hint. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>