Great news, I'm planning to attach my good old Audigy 2 ZS as well. I don't have an extra laptop at home for my parents so I need the machine to be usable from the console, that's why I'm plannin...
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Great news, I'm planning to attach my good old Audigy 2 ZS as well. I don't have an extra laptop at home for my parents so I need the machine to be usable from the console, that's why I'm planning such twisted setups:) One thing I don't understand though - if you VMDP a device is it directly accessible by all virtual machines at the same time (this would mean shareable DMA, IRQs and other stuff that would decrease the performance significantly) or just one of them has direct access and the others see the VMWare virtual adapter?
Stupid question, sorry:) My brain is running out of energy at 7am. As for the 2GB memory limitation - I just watched this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQ5Ej8r-aA If you rewind ...
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Stupid question, sorry:) My brain is running out of energy at 7am. As for the 2GB memory limitation - I just watched this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQ5Ej8r-aA If you rewind to 3:00 you'll hear the guy mentioning that if you don't change sched.mem.minsize parameter to match the memory assigned to the virtual machine you will have problems starting the VM as this is an issue directly related to VMDirectPath I/O. Couldn't find in the KB anything relating this parameter to your particular issue guys but still worth a try.
Truth is almost no cheap or branded sound card I know has Win 2008 drivers. Even if you had spent $500 for a sound card most probably it wouldn't work at all as no vendor cares about server OSes.
Holy smokes, great instructions Theo! Seems like the problems you guys report are bugs, more and more people complain about them. I hope that VMware support team reads the forum and will provide ...
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Holy smokes, great instructions Theo! Seems like the problems you guys report are bugs, more and more people complain about them. I hope that VMware support team reads the forum and will provide this info to the developers for a fix. I have a question - redirecting video output to the ESXi host monitor is great but how about keyboard and mouse? Do you need VMDirectPath for them as well or once you redirect the video output the keyboard and mouse of the ESXi host kick in (if they don't it would be very miserable as there is a two device limit for VMDirectPath as I understand)? My idea is to get full local access to one of my virtual machines (especially the Windows one), otherwise there is almost no benefit of VMDirectPath for video cards. Off-topic: How about sound cards, have any of you guys tried to map Creative cards for example? These are the 2 pieces of hardware I'm looking forward to give direct access to the OS.
