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You may want to test it ! I am sure it may not be on the approved list of hardware, but if they are intel chips on the pci bus it may be ok. Especially with errors or heavy loads. You may wan... See more...
You may want to test it ! I am sure it may not be on the approved list of hardware, but if they are intel chips on the pci bus it may be ok. Especially with errors or heavy loads. You may want to change the correct answer for future google searches too.
Some boards support virtualization features. Pci passthru enables esxi to pass interrupts etc. from devices on the pci buss directly to a VM, so the VM sees the hardware as if it was running nati... See more...
Some boards support virtualization features. Pci passthru enables esxi to pass interrupts etc. from devices on the pci buss directly to a VM, so the VM sees the hardware as if it was running natively--not some virtualized device. The raid is probably on the pci bus, but the board may not support the virtualization features. You would google vmware pci passthru, and the windows exe client can set pci passthru up.
If the xserve motherboard chips support pci passthrough, you can just pass the raid card through to the mac os. I know the xserve uses a few intel chips on their motherboard, but I don't know if ... See more...
If the xserve motherboard chips support pci passthrough, you can just pass the raid card through to the mac os. I know the xserve uses a few intel chips on their motherboard, but I don't know if the chipset does support pci passthrough.
Hi, I have a passthrough capable board, and want to passthrough a LSI 2308 HBA to a vm. All I have seen so far are instructions to click on a vsphere gui icons. Is there a way to set this up wit... See more...
Hi, I have a passthrough capable board, and want to passthrough a LSI 2308 HBA to a vm. All I have seen so far are instructions to click on a vsphere gui icons. Is there a way to set this up with esxi command lines, or editing config files? I have seen that with vsphere: Note: The configuration changes are saved in the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file. The PCI slot number where the device was connected is 00:0b:0. It is recorded as: /device/000:11.0/owner = "passthru" Note: 11 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal 0b. Can I just edit this line: /device/00000:002:00.0/vmkname = "vmhba1" to this: /device/00000:002:00.0/owner = "passthru" I don't want to need windows, vsphere, etc just to setup a passthrough. Is there a way to do this? I don't know if the workstation/fusion pro vmware products enable an advanced config to set the pci device to a vm either.... Thanks!
Hi, I have a passthrough capable board, and want to passthrough a LSI 2308 HBA to a vm. All I have seen so far are instructions to click on a vsphere gui icons. Is there a way to set this up wit... See more...
Hi, I have a passthrough capable board, and want to passthrough a LSI 2308 HBA to a vm. All I have seen so far are instructions to click on a vsphere gui icons. Is there a way to set this up with esxi command lines, or editing config files? I have seen that with vsphere: Note: The configuration changes are saved in the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file. The PCI slot number where the device was connected is 00:0b:0. It is recorded as: /device/000:11.0/owner = "passthru" Note: 11 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal 0b. Can I just edit this line: /device/00000:002:00.0/vmkname = "vmhba1" to this: /device/00000:002:00.0/owner = "passthru" I don't want to need windows, vsphere, etc just to setup a passthrough. Is there a way to do this? I don't know if the workstation/fusion pro vmware products enable an advanced config to set the pci device to a vm either.... Thanks!