Does VMWare Fusion support VT-d (PCIe or Thunderbolt Passthrough of devices to VMs)?

[niquek]

I've got the latest generation Mac Pro tower and I'd like to pass through a PCIe device, an infiniband HBA (that doesn't have drivers available for OS X) directly to a Linux VM.

The Infiniband HBA works fine in Linux, there are drivers available.

This should be possible with PCIe passthrough, right?

Is this something Fusion supports though?

If it does, I don't see the options for it anywhere ::shrug::

If I look in the mac's system profiler settings, I can see the device, but no drivers loaded -- but there's no options in Fusion to map it to a VM...

Also the latest version of Fusion's marketing material says something about "eGPU Support" -- what does that mean exactly?

Does this mean I can assign an eGPU directly to a VM?  That would be great.

[ColoradoMarmot]

For the latter, if you have an eGPU connected, and launch Fusion on a monitor connected to it, it'll use the eGPU in the guest.

For the former, I don't believe that Fusion supports PCIe passthrough.

[wila]

Hi,

VMware Fusion does not suppoprt PCIe or Thunderbolt passthrough.

Does this mean I can assign an eGPU directly to a VM?

Still not passthrough.

It means that the virtual GPU in the VM can run on that external eGPU and benefit from the 3D acceleration that the eGPU might provide to the virtual GPU in the VM.

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Wil