Installing matrox MXO2 in vmware workstation player 15.0.1?

[Lowkey_Loki]

I'm having some trouble getting VMware to recognize that this device is hooked up to my machine...  It uses a pcie card to interface to the machine.  I need help.  Pretty please?

Stephen

[bluefirestorm]

Workstation Pro/Player does not support the passthrough of PCIe devices to the VM.

The VM will have its own virtual graphics adapter (appears as VMware SVGA 3D in Windows Device Manager for Windows VM or vmwgfx in Linux VMs) assuming that VMware Tools is installed inside the VM.

With 3D acceleration enabled, VMware Workstation Pro/Player (versions 12.x/14.x/15.x) will use the host graphics hardware that has DX11 capability (of the Windows host) to deliver the graphics capabilities inside the VM.

[Lowkey_Loki]

How and why would they want to pass a virtual signal through the 16x pcie of a REAL gpu, if they are trying to bypass the pcie lane altogether?  Why does everything have to be faked?  I can understand for security and compatibility reasons but hell, my Windows Mixed Reality headset even is in the list of virtualized objects...

[bluefirestorm]

VMware Workstation VMs has been using a virtual graphics adapter ever since version 1.0.

The technology to pass through PCIe devices with Intel CPUs didn't come until much later (perhaps around 2009??).

If you want to try PCIe passthrough, ESXi would be the current VMware product that supports it. But YMMV.