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Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎01-21-2015 11:36 AM
‎01-21-2015 11:36 AM
Someone did, there is a spreadsheet if you browse back some pages.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎01-03-2014 02:10 PM
‎01-03-2014 02:10 PM
Can you share the HD6450 bios

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-03-2013 06:01 AM
‎12-03-2013 06:01 AM
usb passthrough has issues with 5.1 - use 5.0 or 5.5

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-03-2013 05:36 AM
‎12-03-2013 05:36 AM
You should have tried xbmcbuntu in the first place. Mine just worked out of box, nothing needed. Booted up and displayed using my ATi card. Windows on the other hand needed more work with softwa... See more...
You should have tried xbmcbuntu in the first place. Mine just worked out of box, nothing needed. Booted up and displayed using my ATi card. Windows on the other hand needed more work with software and driver installs.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-02-2013 03:49 AM
‎12-02-2013 03:49 AM
Did you give the VM more than 2GB memory ? Allways start with less than 2GB to get it working.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-02-2013 01:22 AM
‎12-02-2013 01:22 AM
Crankshaft, make sure you have installed vmware tools

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-06-2013 03:09 PM
‎11-06-2013 03:09 PM
Adjust/Turn off overscan in catalyst control center

Home media system, random crashing.

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎08-01-2013 03:46 AM
‎08-01-2013 03:46 AM
I have a problem where my home esxi 5.0.0 623860 is random crashing. When it crash all my VM stop responding but I can still access esxi from vsphere, but I cannot shutdown VMs or shutdown esxi. ... See more...
I have a problem where my home esxi 5.0.0 623860 is random crashing. When it crash all my VM stop responding but I can still access esxi from vsphere, but I cannot shutdown VMs or shutdown esxi. I have the following popup random in my log: Device t10.ATA_____WDC_WD20EARX2D00PASB0_____ ____________________WD2DWCAZAF671421 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 1200 microseconds to 36610 microseconds. warning 14.07.2013 00:09:38 localhost.localdomain This is a RDM disk, that I have forwarded to a WHS2011 VM. This warning however is not in the log today when the system has crashed. Now that the system is crashed, the following is last in vsphere log Logging to storage has failed.  Logs are no longer being stored locally on this host. error 01.08.2013 04:34:33 localhost.localdomain Lost connectivity to storage device t10.ATA_____ OCZ2DAGILITY3___________________________ _OCZ2D5HWPJN6TFPA32Z12. Path vmhba32:C0: T0:L0 is down. Affected datastores: "", "datastore1". error 01.08.2013 04:36:10 localhost.localdomain This is the SSD that esxi is installed on, it's also hosting some VMs Lost access to volume 504bbe23-8c141760-08fe- c860008c3e4b (datastore1) due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in progress and outcome will be reported shortly. info 01.08.2013 04:36:10 datastore1 Lost connection to server 192.168.10.201 mount point /mnt/homepool/datastore mounted as 2203d1fd-c4cfd23f-0000-000000000000 (NAS). error 01.08.2013 05:03:10 localhost.localdomain (this mountpoint is on a pike card forwareded to a freenas vm, freenas is installed on the ssd hosting esxi) Asus P8B 4E/L mobo 16GB ecc ram Xeon 1230 (SB) Asus 2008 PIKE Could it be a storage controller issue? The RDM HD (hosting WHS2011 vm) and the SSD HD (hosting esxi + some vm) is on the same mobo controller. My system is rather complex with lots of pci forwarding to VM, I could explain it if someone has hints to a solution.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎07-03-2013 10:30 AM
‎07-03-2013 10:30 AM
Vintagedon, so nvidia cards are working now ?

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-11-2012 08:52 AM
‎12-11-2012 08:52 AM
You could remove the overscan via regedit, but it's a little trivial, I would try installing the catalyst control center.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-03-2012 12:56 PM
‎12-03-2012 12:56 PM
I'm not sure how powersaving options etc work with RDM, afterall it's still a virtual controller, only the VM writes to the disk as if its a normal disk (so you can take it out and read it in ano... See more...
I'm not sure how powersaving options etc work with RDM, afterall it's still a virtual controller, only the VM writes to the disk as if its a normal disk (so you can take it out and read it in another computer) More info: http://vm-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎12-03-2012 12:39 PM
‎12-03-2012 12:39 PM
You can't pass on a single port, but you can set up RDM (raw device mapping?) google it. I have passed on a 2TB disk to a VM with RDM. On the same controller I have a SSD for ESXi, then I have... See more...
You can't pass on a single port, but you can set up RDM (raw device mapping?) google it. I have passed on a 2TB disk to a VM with RDM. On the same controller I have a SSD for ESXi, then I have a ASUS PIKE controller passed on to Openindiana ZFS system.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-30-2012 09:43 AM
‎11-30-2012 09:43 AM
I'm still having some issues with vmdirectpath on W7 (was working fine on linux), it seems the windows VM just dies at random times when not in active use. Sometimes when I get home from work ... See more...
I'm still having some issues with vmdirectpath on W7 (was working fine on linux), it seems the windows VM just dies at random times when not in active use. Sometimes when I get home from work the VM is not responsive, the usb reciever for remote is dead. Usually at this point vSphere cannot connect with the VM. Upon forced reboot windows event viewer have no information from when the system dies, the log just stops at some point. However today vSphere could still connect. I could see the vsphere log, and it says: "An error occured while saving a suspend file" (because of vmdirectpath) but I have suspend disabled in windows and the log of this error is from the point where I turned on my TV. Anyone else experience something like this ?

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-29-2012 11:46 AM
‎11-29-2012 11:46 AM
I think I found the missing piece of the puzzle. After installing VMWARE Tools it started working !

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-27-2012 01:06 PM
‎11-27-2012 01:06 PM
Actually, on the working Win7 VM, I installed the VM first and later added the passthrough device, then I did install drivers only, and when it was working I installed Catalyst. (need catalyst to... See more...
Actually, on the working Win7 VM, I installed the VM first and later added the passthrough device, then I did install drivers only, and when it was working I installed Catalyst. (need catalyst to remove stupid overscan compensation). Problem on both WHS and Win7 that is not working is that catalyst refuse to start. In display manager only the vmware display is listed. However in device manager ATi card is listed as installed and working. On Win7 / WHS dualboot on RDM, I did full driver and catalyst install. This VM I first installed WHS, but it was not working, later I installed W7 as dualboot (without passthrough enable) then I enable passthrough and do full install, and experience same in W7 as in WHS. I'm not using pci.Hole trick, I only have 2GB on my VMs

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-27-2012 01:59 AM
‎11-27-2012 01:59 AM
Update on my situation(page 21 and 22): As notet earlier: Linux works fine with passthrough. WHS2011 install drivers fine, but no way to get output on TV, catalyst will not start. W8 Consumer... See more...
Update on my situation(page 21 and 22): As notet earlier: Linux works fine with passthrough. WHS2011 install drivers fine, but no way to get output on TV, catalyst will not start. W8 Consumer Preview, drivers install fine, output on TV, catalyst will not start. I now  tested W7 32bit, it installed drivers fine and everything works perfect, catalyst etc. So since I was running low on diskspace to host VMs I tried to install W7 as a dualboot on the WHS2011 system (it has a 2 TB RDM harddisk), but now I experience the same issue on W7 as I did on WHS2011, everything installs fine and and reports as fine, but no output to TV and catalyst refuse to start. I compared the working W7 VM to the none working WHS2011 (with W7 dualboot) and they are exactly the same, except for it beeing installed on a RDM harddisk rather than virual disk. I actually replaced the virtual disk in my working W7 VM with the RDM disk and boot up W7 from it, and it still did not work. It's really frustrating that install media can block if it's working or not.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎10-22-2012 11:18 AM
‎10-22-2012 11:18 AM
Please take this off-topic discussion elsewhere.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎10-22-2012 11:05 AM
‎10-22-2012 11:05 AM
Like he said, there are no success story's with esxi and nvidia, besides this is a thread for ATi. If you plan on continue to try this and expect help I would suggest creating a thread called "VM... See more...
Like he said, there are no success story's with esxi and nvidia, besides this is a thread for ATi. If you plan on continue to try this and expect help I would suggest creating a thread called "VMDirectPath and Nvidia". But if you don't need vmware, go for Xen who is confirmed to be working with nvidia.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎10-22-2012 06:51 AM
‎10-22-2012 06:51 AM
Try different pci-e slot if possible, try different gfx card (ATi).

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎10-22-2012 05:59 AM
‎10-22-2012 05:59 AM
Please double check that you are doing it correctly, the behaviour you describe is perfect normal with gfx passthrough. Once cnic_register is loading display will freeze and stay that way until y... See more...
Please double check that you are doing it correctly, the behaviour you describe is perfect normal with gfx passthrough. Once cnic_register is loading display will freeze and stay that way until you start a VM that access the gfx card, at that point the screen will normally go dark, and stay that way until gfx drivers are loaded. Text display is output via console in vSphere. So your remote vSphere client fails to connect to the esxi server ? Are you sure you are connecting to the right IP adress with vSphere ?