ESXi

Hi,

What are the settings in order to provision VMDirectPath to ethernet interface (PCI NIC) with an OVF description of the virtual machine? There are XML options for e1000, etc. , but nothing for IOMMU. What am I missing?

Thank you,

You must have an hardware that support this features, than configure the card in host / configuration /advanced settings.

At this point you can add the hardware device to the VM.

Thank you. The HW already supports IOMMU (VTd) and the BIOS enables it too. vCenter allows configuring. But I cannot find how to define it within an ova or ovf file.

Exporting the configuration, while the ports are set to DirectPath (IOMMU) to a guest, it does not work. It leads to an error with vCenter:

  (File / Export / OVF)

      => PCI 0 unknown

It works fine with Virtualbox but it seems that the XML schema is not standard.

Are there any other options in order to create an appliance file (ova, ovf, ???) while setting IOMMU?

Thank you,