Hardware virtualisation doesn't work?

[IllusionFACTORY]

Hi!

I run ESXi4 on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ on an ASUS M2N-E mainboard.

After a BIOS update the option to enable hardware virtualisation appeared in BIOS, which I enabled. Still I cannot enable PCI passthrough ("The host doesn't support passthrough configuration")

Thanks for your ideas

Martin

[AndreTheGiant]

Hardware virtualization is only one aspect.

But this does not mean that if you have it you can also use VMDirectPath, for this function there are also some motherboard requirements:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_vmdirectpath_host.pdf

And for FT there are other requirements.

Andre

[IllusionFACTORY]

Hi!

Thanks for the link - unfortunately I cannot find any mainboard requirements in it...

Best regards,

Martin

[mcowger]

Are you 100% sure that CPU supports AMD-V? I'm not sure that it does.

--Matt

VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

[admin]

Due to a bug in the original AMD-V implementation, VMware products only support AMD-V in Family 10H and later CPUs. I believe your CPU may be Family 0FH.

[beyondvm]

From what I have read, the system that you want to use VMDirectPath on pretty much has to have be the latest everything.

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[IllusionFACTORY]

Thanks, I'll order a CPU and will let you know if this was the cause.

Best regards

Martin