hi, long time lurker here.

I am having a slight problem with 5.5 and pci passthrough.

I have a Sil 3132 SATA controller card from monoprice (http://www.monoprice.com/Product/?p_id=2530)

In 5.1, I was able to passthrough this card to a Linux VM and able to access hdd's connected to this card.

However, after 5.5 i am not able to do so in any of my Linux VM's.

When I add the card to a linux vm and boot the vm, it gets bunch of these lines: sata_sil24: IRQ status == 0xffffffff, PCI fault or device removal?

and the esxi machine gives me a PSOD. (http://i.imgur.com/OirZghS.jpg?1)

I know PSOD is yelling something about rtl8168 (LAN Controller).. but when i remove the sata card from the vm, the vm boots up just fine.

Also, Windows 7 vm is able to load this card without any problem, so i don't think the card is defective or anything

I did some research and found out about this: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=205693...

"SiI 3132 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller" is listed in the list..

So.. does anyone have Sil3132 sata controller card and is doing hw passthrough? any luck? am i just going crazy?