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Chunguang

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Nov 9, 2010

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Nov 9, 2010 7:58 PM

Three PCIe devices attached to the same VM

Hi,

I'm a newbie in VMware ESXi. I installed ESXi 4.1 on a DELL Precision T5500 and Windows 7 64bit as VM OS. I had three PCIe devices of the same type (under the sound,video and game controller category) plugged into the host machine and I could attach all the three of them to the one VM and all the three devices are accessible by that VM.

However, based on the post at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11089, "Each virtual machine can be connected to up to two PCI devices." Is this a new improvement of ESXi4.1 to support more than 2 PCI devices or just my good luck?

Chunguang

Tags: pcie, vmdirectpath, esxi4.1, t5500

Dave.Mishchen…

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1. Nov 9, 2010 8:40 PM

in response to: Chunguang

Re: Three PCIe devices attached to the same VM

As far as I know it's still 2 devices. However, it's likely the case that you have 2 of the devices on the same PCI bus. Can you post as image of the VMDirectPath configuration screen for the host?

Dave

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