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Can ICH10 be passed through to a VM?

It's on the ESXi 5.5 HCL, but the HCL doesn't explicitly differentiate between whether an SATA controller will simply be recognized by ESXi for booting and hosting datastores or whether it can be passed through to a VM via VT-d...

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DavoudTeimouri
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Do you need to add your SATA disk to your virtual machine directly?

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continuum
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I used such a setup now for a few days and will move it back to a regular vmdk as soon as possible.

That was the slowest VM I have ever seen and I got occasionally APDs on that disk

If you want to try it yourself - the trick is to create a physical RDM from commandline


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