Video pass through using Core i7 -3770

[trunolimit]

I'm a complete newbie but everything from installing to running esxi has been pretty simple and straight forward. That is until I heard about passthrough and thought that maybe I could have a home lab and an HTPC in one box.

Now I'm running esxi 5.5 U2 on an:

AS Rock PRO4-M LGA1155 Intel H77 mother board

with a Core i7 -3770

I tried to just set up passthrough for everything on the list of available devices and I broke my server and have had to reinistall it a few times. One problem I keep running into is when I set up passthrough the server doesn't boot all the way. Then this other time the server took about 15 minutes to boot. This lead me to believe that maybe blindly passing everything is not a good idea.

Can anyone give me an insight on how video passthrough works or how it is suppose to work?

Thanks

[jrwise]

Ever get things working? I am running into similar issues.

[kanishks]

HiTrunolmit,

Kindly refer the http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-60-virtual... to understand about how passthrough works and let me know if this helps.

Rgds

KanishK

[trunolimit]

‌No, I gave up and returned the video cards. I managed to get something out of the video cards but it always blue screened on me about a minute after the OS loaded. It's most likely a driver issue somewhere in the chain. It just wasn't worth my time to figure it out.