Yeah, just a small off-point: some CPU support VT-d but for some reason the corresponding chipset does not (yet their BIOS offers this as a configurable item).
Looking at you, Dell BIOS and Intel i7-2700 and Intel Q65 chipset.
Looking at you, Dell BIOS and Intel i7-2700 and Intel Q65 chipset.
I have a few ivybridge era chipset boards (B75, Z77) some of which actually don't officially support this feature but the motherboard manufacturers enabled it in bios anyway and it works. The sandybridge era was much messier for this feature.
It is very irritating Intel tried to gate this behind chipsets since I believe it is 100% handled by the processor.