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Hi all, thanks to you I have this working also, though I have hit another snag and wondered if you could possibly suggest a solution...
I am running ESXi5.5u2 on an Asrock Z87E-ITX board which only has one PCI-E slot currently housing a graphics card. As such the Lynx Point controller is the only SATA controller available for passthrough, which I have successfully configured as I mentioned. I am booting ESXi from USB and seeing "The ESXi host does not have persistent storage" (which is as expected). So I am wondering for those of you who pass through their Lynx Point controller successfully, how are you also making use of a datastore in ESXi?
I am trying to build an ESXi all-in-one and would prefer not to have to rely on an external NFS datastore.
Also, just adding one small but important extra step to vinnie_ki's instructions:
For the novices:
- Activate the ssh service in Vsphere Client using the instructions in this link: VMware KB: Using ESXi Shell in ESXi 5.x
- Use Putty or any other terminal program to connect to you Esxi SSH server.
- Use vi, for example: vi /etc/vmware/passthru.map
- Add these 2 lines at the bottom of the file:
# INTEL Lynx Point AHCI 8086 8c02 d3d0 false
- If you don't now how to use vi, than google for a manual.
- run auto-backup.sh
- Reboot the Esxi server.
- Add the Lynx Pont AHCI to the passtrough devices and reboot the Esxi server again.
- All done!
Cheers!
Message was edited by: MrWhippy Fixed a typo.