In the virtual machine information screen, for the installed network adapter, it says pass-through (direct-path I/O) : yes. But, in the edit screen, there is no mention of this option. I am having trouble connecting to things on the network with this VM and want to try disabling direct-path I/O. Is there a way to do that?
I have seen many articles saying to uncheck the box for it, but there is no box. The user interface I see (web based configuration directly to ESXi (no vCenter)) does not match what other articles are saying. And then most articles talk about PCI devices or something. I don't see what those are saying either. The VM is powered off.
Hi
Could you please check below post which helps by using powercli
VMware PowerCLI Forum - VMware {code}
Please mark this answer as correct and helpfull if this helps you.
regards
Gayathri
I ended up having to install vCenter and then there was an option to disable direct-path I/O. I didn't get around to trying the Powercli command, assuming one can do that without vCenter anyway.
I just ran into this on esxi 6.7u2 standalone free license.
i manually edited the vmx file.
Will add details later but the steps were-
enable ssh
power down VM
unregister the VM
login to ssh
navigate into the vm folder
vi <vmname>.vmx
find the uptCompatibility value for the virtual nic and set it to false
Save & exit vi
re-register VM
making any change to the network adapter may cause the setting to revert back to true, so do this when you don’t expect any more changes.