59 thoughts on “List of Sandy Bridge LGA1155 H67/P67 motherboards that support VT-d”

1. Griztown January 22, 2011 at 12:53 am

   I too have been searching and last night I gave up and bought the Gigabyte GA-P67-UD3. I’m curious if they can enable it with future BIOS updates? If the Intel DP67BG has it wouldn’t that assume the P67 chipset has the capability and the manufacturer just has to turn it on? Wish I had seen this post last night.
2. Loune Post authorJanuary 22, 2011 at 7:58 am

   @Griztown, it certainly can be enabled through a BIOS update. Whether they will do it is another matter. I too bought a gigabyte (GA-H67MA-UD2) and it’s disappointing that a top of the range board like this lacks such a feature while cheaper boards have it.

   It’s worth noting that gigabyte seems to have the worst track record when it comes to VT-d support. I couldn’t confirm any motherboards they’ve made ever supported VT-d. The only GB motherboard which apparently has the feature is the old GA-EX58-DS4, but I couldn’t find it as an option in its manual.

   Time to start bugging gigabyte about it I guess.
3. Griztown January 22, 2011 at 8:24 am

   I emailed Gigabyte about their GA-P67A-UD3 support and got this response. So perhaps not all hope is lost!

   Dear Customer,

   The current BIOS does not support VT-d. A future BiOS will allow the use of VT-d.

   Thank you for choosing Gigabyte products
4. Loune Post authorJanuary 22, 2011 at 12:00 pm

   That’s great news Griztown, hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later!
5. Andy January 23, 2011 at 5:24 am

   Have you some way to check that VT-D on asrock and other that currently show the bios option, REALLY works ??

   Even Asus motherboards don”t have VT-D specific option in the BIOS. But instead “old” P55 mobos do.
   So it doesn’t make sense that P67 have not support for that.
6. combuster January 23, 2011 at 5:30 am

   Yep, GA H67MA-UD2H doesn’t have VT-d support for now, I really hope that they will include it in future BIOS versions.
7. Stephan January 23, 2011 at 10:13 am

   Thank you for posting correct information!

   And thank you for finding those motherboards. Helped a lot!!
8. Andy January 25, 2011 at 2:13 am

   Read this:
   http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=52812,52807,52810

   It seems that P67 ad H67 don’t support VT-D and other stuff.
   Only Q67 will.
9. Anonymous Coward January 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm

   @Andy,

   No, P67 supports VT-D too:
   http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-030922.htm

   In fact, the Intel DP67BG motherboard supports VT-D.
10. Anonymous Coward January 25, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    Would be good to know if DH67CL supports VT-D too. This has all the goodies of an ATX (ie enough PCI slots for my purpose).

    http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/db-DH67CL/DH67CL-overview.htm
11. Andy January 25, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    @ Anonymous Coward

    Good news.

    P.S: Intel documentation it’s a mess…
12. ivo February 4, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Hi, can I ask how do you know these boards support VT-D?
    Have you seen tests ? Sorry my doubts, but OFTEN the VT-D support is BROKEN on MANY boards (i.e. it doesn’t work as it should).
    Anyway Intel usually works well.
13. Loune Post authorFebruary 5, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    @ivo, no unfortunately I don’t own any of those mobos so I can’t test it. The Xen Wiki mentions some broken VT-d in early boards, but you’d think that by now, those with the option explicitly available will have tested it.

    If it is broken, then the manufacturer should fix it with a BIOS update.
14. Michael February 6, 2011 at 1:16 am

    The vt-d function is not usable with Intel DP67BG!

    I tested one of those combined with a i5 2400S.

    1. You have to update your BIOS to Version: 1815.
    After that you get a Dialog under Security for
    Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d).

    2. Starting a Linux with Kernel 2.6.37.x brings up the following error.
    Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported … returns all ones!

    DAMN Intel …
15. Loune Post authorFebruary 6, 2011 at 10:04 am

    @Michael Best contact intel about it. They explicitly said DP67BG is VT-d capable.
16. ivo February 7, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    Thanks :)
    I’ve ordered both an Intel DP67BG and an Asrock p67 Pro3.
    I’ll test both with XEN and report results here. I hope at least one will work.
    @Micheal
    I saw your post on xen mailing list few days ago, that’s the reason I ordered an Asrock too.
    Anyway contact Intel (I will too) and ask them to fix.
17. peter February 8, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    So, does it support or does not ? i’m confused.

    http://communities.intel.com/message/115531#115531

    My new, small test env is based on P8P67 in that case DP67BG with ESXi 4.1 as primary OS. The new system doesn’t support Passtrough – in fact, as i know VT-d is required.
18. Luke February 9, 2011 at 11:47 am

    Gigabyte denies VT-d fix:

    “Dear Customer,

    Unfortunately this motherboard can only support VT-x, VT-d is not supported.
    Do note that Intel has recall all socket 1155 boards on the market, therefore there are no socket 1155 will be available on the market in the time being until further notice from Intel. If you elect to use the board in the meantime you may”
19. Michael February 10, 2011 at 5:55 am

    Well first contact with the intel support … uhm yea maybe they should read and understand the e-mail before writing back. And no the e-mail was no auto reply.

    suggestions as
    – BIOS recovery
    – try installing Windows
    – try a different mainboard :D
    – …
    i will give it another try next week.
20. Luke-Jr March 11, 2011 at 12:53 am

    Has anyone actually tested and verified VT-d actually works on the listed motherboards?
21. Peter March 11, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    The intel-link (posted January 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm) now only mentions Q-chipsets (e.g. Q67) to be capable of vt-d. Did this change over time? (Or is this a marketing trick from intel?)
22. Loune Post authorMarch 12, 2011 at 9:09 am

    I’d like to know as well if anybody has successfully used sandy bridge (h67/p67) with VT-d. Asus has basically said that they won’t be supporting VT-d as their boards are not capable:
    http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=1&model=P8P67+DELUXE&id=20110123010621363&page=4&SLanguage=en-us

    My Asus contact confirms the enabling of VT-D is not complete due to chipset limitation (cannot pass all test items via Intel VT-D test tool)

    After discussing with Intel FAE, it has just officially confirmed to my Asus contact that the VT-D support mentioned on the Intel’s own P67/H67 board spec page is a misprint, and will be removed to avoid further misunderstanding.
23. Michael March 19, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    Good news regarding DP67BG.

    I tested a “beta 1950” bios from Intel for the DP67BG Board.
    Running Linux 2.6.38 in combination with qemu/kvm and libvirt.

    boot
    http://www.lansirai.com/pp_2638.png

    passthrough intel nic
    http://www.lansirai.com/pp_2638lan.png

    So with the next bios-update it should be fine :).

    Michael
24. Luke March 19, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    Michael, how about passthrough of a Radeon video card? Or some VT-d conformance test?

    Thanks to the (unrelated) SATA problem, NewEgg extended the return period by 90 days, so I plan to just get a Q67 as soon as they’re out and return the H67 garbage.
25. Brian March 24, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    I have searched for a matching sandy bridge VT-d motherboard and CPU for a very long time.

    I took the plunge and got Asrock P67 Pro, updated to latest bios, run ESXi4.1 with CPU i7-2600. Both suppose to support VT-d on there official website and manual.

    Sadly there is no VMdirectpath all I get is “Host does not support pass through configuration”.

    Very disappointed and angry. Felt cheated, honestly should be class action lawsuit for misrepresentation. Not sure who to blame Intel or motherboard makers.
26. Loune Post authorMarch 24, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    @Brian, have you contacted ASRock to see what they say about this?

    Also, I’ve updated the post with the latest info.
27. Brian March 25, 2011 at 7:27 am

    @Loune, I have contacted ASRock, waiting for their reply.

    @ivo, did you have any success getting VT-d on XEN with your Intel DP67BG and ASRrock p67 Pro3 board? I am interested to know if you get the same result with the ASRock board.

    CPU i7-2600 is VT-d capable according to Intel site:
    http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52213

    Board ASRock P67 Pro is capable of VT-d according to manual (Page 45):
    http://download.asrock.com/manual/P67%20Pro.pdf
28. Brian March 25, 2011 at 9:05 am

    Is this true?

    Just discovered that P67 and H67 do not support VT-d:

    http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36784,52807,52810,36785

    That would include DP67BG?
29. Anonymous Coward March 25, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Anonymous Coward says:
    January 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @Andy,

    No, P67 supports VT-D too:
    http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-030922.htm

    In fact, the Intel DP67BG motherboard supports VT-D.

    Apparently, Intel updated the above URL posted after this happens at the ASUS forum:
    http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110123010621363&board_id=1&model=P8P67+DELUXE&SLanguage=en-us&page=4

    See post #37
30. Anonymous Coward March 25, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    @Brian

    I updated your link to include the Q67 chipset :)

    http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36784,52807,52810,36785,52812

    Q67 supports VT-d.

    As far as I can see, all the Intel boards based on the Q67 chipset are mATX. Still no full ATX boards, with 3 x PCI 2.0 slots + PCie x4/x1 slots + integrated GPU. Would be good if such a board is available.
31. Brian March 25, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    From the link:

    http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-030922.htm

    P67 and H67 are only “Intel VT” not “Intel VT with Directed I/O”. Which I believe the “Directed I/O” is what ESXi VMdirectpath needs for VT-d.

    I have checked my rig and HWINFO32 and yes my CPU and BIOS have VT-d supported, so the key question is only on the chipset P67.

    So if Intel removed P67 and H67 from the “Intel VT with Directed I/O” list from the above URL, then they have acknowledged it was their mistake. This is very frustrating.

    I hope I am wrong but I have not yet seen anyone got DP67BG or any P67 / H67 to work with VT-d, despite the motherboard makers have it available in the BIOS.

    It appears to get VT-d (for directed I/O) working is only by using Q35, Q45, Q57 and Q67 chipsets.

    I have read from another forum someone got VT-d working on DQ45CB so Q45 is confirmed.
32. Brian March 25, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    @Michael,

    Did you test the “beta 1950″ bios with your DP67BG Board on Xen and ESXi?

    Or anyone else for that matter on testing on other Linux distro.

    The more successes will could put pressure on other board makers for the inconvenient truth.
33. Luke May 4, 2011 at 8:03 am

    I only have until May 18 to return my Gigabyte, so I’m getting this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q5H1O8
34. Luke May 8, 2011 at 2:11 am

    Success! I am using* my Radeon 5850 inside KVM with my new DQ67SW motherboard. No drivers on host OS, just fglrx in the VM. qemu-kvm git revision c7b3e90e20c512a992865c38db03543a654e5d12.

    * I’m not using the video out, so no idea if that works. Just OpenCL.
35. Loune Post authorMay 8, 2011 at 9:44 am

    @Luke that’s pretty cool. Good to know that at least one range works as expected. I’m still weighing up whether to swap my gigabyte H67 for a Q67 board. The Q67 boards are pretty ordinary in terms of features. I’m waiting to see if the Z68 has VT-d.
36. Manoel Pinho May 8, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Hi,

    I am also buying parts to mount my new computer. I will use linux on it and I want to studya and run virtual machines on Xen and Virtualbix.

    The parts I had selected: Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard and Intel Core i7 2600 processor because its Vt-d support. Initially I have choosed INTEL 2600k but it has no Vt-d support. I read you posts about the lack of Vt-d support in Asus P8P67 Deluxe and I am angry with Asus too.

    But after read this

    http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00444.html

    “Personally, I don’t think IOMMU is all that useful. Virtualization is useful because one computer can run many guests. But IOMMU only allows one guest (or else the host) to talk to one piece of hardware. If you have installed a special PCI card (i.e., not disk or network), then there is very little advantage to building a VM to talk to it. In most cases it would be much simpler to just let the host OS talk to it directly, rather than building a VM to talk to it (because that VM would still have slow disk and network). ”

    I am convicted that there are no advantage for me using the Vt-d feature. In most of time I will be runnig several virtual machines and if I want better performance, I will simply reboot the machine and boot the other operating system natively.

    I am thinking to forget this Vt-d issue and buy Intel Core i7 2600k, which can be overclocked to better performance.
37. mieszek2 June 9, 2011 at 1:49 am

    I have P8H67-M EVO, Intel i7 2600 (no K) so P8H67-M EVO doesnt support VT-d (Asus claims no VT-d in H67) and i7 2600 does. Unfortunatelly Asus support said that H67 will not have VT-d support :(
38. piciu July 1, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    mieszek2: let’s wait for new bios – this is the clue. Intel DP67BG didn’t support too in beging, but after few months, we have it.

    http://topclass.art.pl/2011/4761/obsluga-passthrough-w-esxi-dla-sandybridge-intel-dp67bg-vt-x
39. Euhreka July 15, 2011 at 1:55 am

    If you have a look at following URL http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=52806,52807,52810,52812,52816 , you can see that according to Intel only Q67 support VT-d.
    And latest chipset Z68, doesn’t ?

    So how can motherboard with H67/P67 include bios option to set VT-d ?
40. Anonymous Coward July 18, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    vt-d works on “ASRock Z68 Extreme4” and “MSI Z68A-GD-80 (B3)”. See here:

    – http://tinkertry.com/vzilla/

    – http://tinkertry.com/vmdirectpath/

    Wooohooo!! I’m excited!
41. Virtualizer July 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    I bought Asus P8P67 and Intel i7 2600 on Saturday 7th May 2011. Before getting this, I refered Intel Website which mentioned P67 supports VT-D and then I contacted Asus to confirm the same. Asus said, P67 supports VT-D and suggested me to go for P8P67 and I did.
    Later on I was unable to run passthrough, and I found this chipset do not support VT-D and I refered the same Intel link I used earlier. What I found was it was changed!!!! (Date modified at the bottom of the page was Monday 9th May, 2011).

    I then contacted Asus regarding the misinformation given to me and money I spent! After having discussion with them for around 25 days, they agreed for a refund with full VAT TAX!!!!

    I got refund from them. Somehow I managed to sell my i7 2600 and graphic card.

    So I am now very cautious and do not want to take any more risk. Intel says Z68 chipset do NOT support VT-D so I am wondering, how come Asrock and MSI are supporting the same.

    I am thinking to buy Asus P8B WS because, the latest BIOS release says “VT-D feature functionality added”. I am awaiting a confirmation from Asus for the same.
    I also read on newegg, VT-D support on Asus P8B WS is not be available for Xeon E3 series processors. So I guess it will work with i3/i5 and i7 (non-K) versions.

    Asus P8B WS
    1. integrated iGPU HD3000
    2. ATI CrossFire and Nvidia Quad GPU Support.
    3. Sata 3 and 6 gbps RAID 0,1,5, 10
    4. USB 2.0 and 3.0

    What we do not get is SSD caching and LogicVirtue. (doesn’t matter for me atleast).
42. Virtualizer July 28, 2011 at 2:46 am

    Email from MSI on the query I posted:-

    Dear Sir

    The VT-D function only supported by Intel Q Series chipsets (Q67/ Q57 / Q45)

    Z68, P67, H67, H61, X58, P55, or H55 does not support suchfunction

    Also Intel i3 and K series CPU does not support VT-D as well

    Best Regards,
    MICRO-STAR INT’L CO.,LTD

    I replied to above:-

    Then why msi z68A-GD80 (B3) shows vt-d in BIOS?

    Reply from MSI

    Dear Sir,

    Sorry, my mistake!!!

    Intel Z68 chipset does support VT-d function

    but this function supportability depend on CPU

    since you have mention that you are going to use i7-2600 (non-k)CPU

    we have check the SPEC of this CPU, it does support VT-dfunction

    therefore, yes, Z68A-GD80 does support VT-d with your configurationSPEC

    sorry for the confusion caused with previous mail

    Best Regards,
    MICRO-STAR INT’L CO.,LTD

    I replied to MSI

    Hello MSI,
    I understand MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3) does support Vt-d with non-K i5 / i7 processor. Can you please confirm?
    So after buying this motherboard lets assume in worst case later it is discovered unsupported, then what solution will MSI offer? I am asking this because I will take MSI call.

    Haven’t heard from them so far…
43. Virtualizer August 3, 2011 at 9:46 am

    I had a communication with MSI technical support and they have confirmed that Z68A-GD80 (B3) and Z68A-GD65 (B3) supports VT-D.
    Infact, they sent me screen shots of “Passed” test results for VT-D support.
44. Loune Post authorAugust 3, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    @Virtualizer that’s great news. Hopefully MSI will start making VT-d feature the norm. Looking forward to some Ivy Bridge VT-d…
45. wgillick August 7, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    @Virtualizer,

    I have the Asus P8B WS motherboard. Fantastic, dual Intel-LANs, USB3, SATA6, and it supports VT-d with my Sandy Bridge i6-2600. However, I have yet to confirm the actual functionality in ESXi vMotion and FT.

    earlier you said:
    “I also read on newegg, VT-D support on Asus P8B WS is not be available for Xeon E3 series processors. So I guess it will work with i3/i5 and i7 (non-K) versions.”

    That’s horrible news, if confirmed! I was just planning to buy a Xeon for another P8B WS board to do vMotion between the two. Any idea why Intel or ASUS would disable VT-d on a very important Server processor (Xeon) on a Server motherboard (P8B WS)? It seems crazy, but Intel has been known to to dumb things in the pursuit of marketing bliss.
    __Will (San Jose)
46. Virtualizer August 8, 2011 at 10:25 am

    @Wgillick,

    After reading “Asus P8B WS” does not support VT-D for E3-1200 series Xeon processors, I wrote to Asus. They came up with a reply, it does support. I have asked them to re-confirm asking “VT-D support when Xeon E3 processor installed”. Because if I go by english grammar “BIOS does support E3 series CPUs and VT-d technology.” will mean – motherboard supports VT-D and Xeon which we already know :-). I want something like “VT-D supported with Xeon E3 processor installed”. :-p Hope I am not too rigorous at confirmation.

    Below is the email from them

    Dear Sir,

    As per the communication ,0605ver BIOS does support E3 series CPUs and VT-d technology.

    Thanks & Best Regards,
    Vishakha
    ASUS Technology Pvt. Ltd
47. Virtualizer August 8, 2011 at 10:34 am

    @Wgillick,

    Sorry, did not address your questions.

    Well, Intel Xeon E3-1235 processor does support VT-D function and there are other processors in E3 series that do support VT-D. It could be just a matter of BIOS / chipset incompatibility with Xeon when VT-D enabled. I haven’t heard from Asus yet reconfirming if VT-D will work when Xeon E3 is installed. Will post when updated received from Asus.
48. Matt August 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    Ouch, I just brought my 2500K and installed it in my AsRock Z68 Professional board in the hope to Virtualise my WHS2011 (Now I know why the errors (ANY ONE WANNA BUY A 2500K used for only 4 hours of use??)

    Or is there going to be any updates or Hacks that allow the K series???
49. Virtualizer August 14, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    @Matt,

    2500K processor itselft does not suppot VT-D. So I don’t think there would be hack / crack to get VT-D working on Non-K processor.
50. Micah August 30, 2011 at 2:45 am

    I purchased a P8Q67-M motherboard and an i5-2400. So far no dice using KVM and VT-d. There is an option to enable it in the bios, and with it turned on there is no support.

    I’ve emailed Asus for feedback. I hope they can just fix the problem!