Three PCIe devices attached to the same VM

[Chunguang]

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

[Dave_Mishchenko]

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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[Chunguang]

Here are the VMDirectPath configuration screen of all the three PCI devices and the usage information in the VM.

Actually, two of the three devices are PCIe and the third one is PCIx. It seems the two devices on PCIe are sharing the a same number (1010).

Chunguang