Several years back, I saw a fun post where a guy managed to set up ESXi, install a VM, set up passthrough for his video card and a USB port to the guest, and use the setup like a client hypervisor. From his description, he claimed it actually worked rather well. I have a really beastly laptop, and I've managed to get everything working except for one little detail: the mouse and keyboard. I don't see a way to enable passthrough for those, and I would be stuck using an external USB mouse and keyboard. Now, I know that what I'm suggesting would be completely unsupported, but is there some way to pass these devices through to a guest? There has to be, I would think, especially if the guest VM is a Linux distro. Is there an undocumented way to manually passthrough other devices that aren't listed by ESXi? Is there a way to perhaps tunnel /dev/tty over SSH? Who's feeling creative?
