ESXi 5.5 PCI Passthrough bad BAR Mapping when it is smaller than 4 KB

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• ESXi 4.0 PCI Passthrough on IBM x 3650

  Hi all!

  Quick question, I was hoping I could get assistance.  II have an IBM x 3650 (no M2) fully patched under ESXi 4.0.  I have also two Dual Port fiber QLogic HBA installed.

  When I start the server and newspapers in VSphere, I see all four ports come in the hardware configuration of the server.  However, when I try to help for passthrough for VM, I don't have the option.  I am told 'Host does not support configuring passthrough ".

  I am out of luck with this server?  I checked the BIOS setting and noticed that Intel Virtualization in enabled, but it's the only option I see.  Is there something else I'm missing or something I should look for?

  Thank you very much!

  "Host does not support configuring passthrough".

  That is right.

  I am out of luck with this server?

  Yes, basically.

  I checked the BIOS setting and noticed that Intel Virtualization in active

  This has nothing to do with the passthrough material, is to virtualize VMS 64-bit on the hosts.  If you want to passthrough, you need hardware that supports, technology later.  Don't know which IBM supports, but I think they are should arrive this month, if not already.

  Also it is not necessary to provide direct access to the fiber ports on VM.  You configure the HBA to connect to a San, and you install VMFS on a LUN, the virtual computer has access to.

  However, SOME fiber switches are NPIV that allows you to use a virtual machine with a direct access to a fiber RDM device.  You can configure NPIV on a per-VM basis, if your fiber it supports.

• Standard (non-express) - card PCI Passthrough/VMDirectPath broken in ESXi 5.5?

  Hello

  I use VMDirectPath/PCI passthrough with 2 cards in an ESXi 5 host environment:

  -The first card is a standard-PCI (not express), a "AVM B1 ISDN-Controller.

  -The second is a card PCIe, a "Renesas USB 3.0 controller"

  The two cards passthrough'ed work correctly with ESXi 5.0 for a long time...

  After an upgrade to ESXi 5.5, the relay of the card to the PCI standard is no longer in effect:

  -Two cards are listed very well as passthrough devices ' ed in the vSphere client

  -Two cards are configured with "msiEnabled = FALSE" in the virtual machine, no error occur at power to the top of the virtual machine

  -Two cards are listed without errors in the Device Manager of Windows Server 2003 in the VM - no exclamation point appears

  -L'USB 3.0 controller works fine, devices are recognized and are accessible

  - But, the driver for the PCI ISDN card indicates an error in the Event Viewer system log in the Windows virtual machine: "the card can not be found" and the map does not work

  After re - install of the 'old' ESXi 5.0 and restore a backup of the configuration, all works fine again.

  A ' cat vmware.log | grep-i CPPI"VM file log shows no relevant difference regarding PCI passthrough between ESXi 5.0 and 5.5.

  No idea what changed in ESXi 5.5 compared to 5.0 in PCI card passthrough/VMDirectPath ESXi?

  Thank you

  Message geändert durch MatthiasSchmidt

  The card works fine now with the recent update ESXi 5.5 2!

• Fix for PCI cards ESXi 5.5 using areas PCI Passthrough memory less than 4 KB?

  Hello!

  Did anyone know when the fix for ESXi 5.5, which has problems with PCI cards that use areas of memory less than 4 k, as described here https://communities.vmware.com/message/2351080#2351080, will be available?

  
  Thank you!

  Yes, the fix for this problem must be in ESXi 5.5 U2.  Let us know if you encounter any additional problems using PCI Passthrough with your device.

  Thanks for your patience,

  --

  Darius

• Physical Adaptec RAID PCIe passthrough - no longer appears 2 to on guest VM

  I'm having a problem with a virtual computer which I just can't 10.9 TB of RAW storage to be seen in the guest.

  Here is the environment:

  -ESXi 5.1 - later

  -Adaptec 5805 PCIe (passthrough to vm)

  -Windows 7 Ultimate x 64 is the virtual machine.

  I have an existing VM (Win7 Ult x 64) that I added in the physical (coming as passthrough) Adaptec RAID PCI device. I had created an array of RAID 6 (in the RAID BIOS) of the 8 x 2 TB drives that shows TB total 10.9. I'm moving this across as RDM physical to the virtual machine.

  The adaptec card driver load on the client (I've tried both the pilot Windows and load the driver Adaptec with the same result), but I do not see my RAW disk in Windows disk management. So if I load the Adaptec Storage Manager for Windows, blow to remove the matrix RAID 6 there and try to create another RAID 6 array, create it but she sized down there (only allows the maximum size of) to 2 TB, so I then a RAID 6 array with separate 8 x 2 TB drives that are 2 TB RAW size each.

  It will then appear as 2 TB RAW in disk management. So it seems to me that the BIOS of the VMware customer is limit, or something else in the operating system restricted it to adjust the size of the large disks. I can also set up 8 separate JBOD disks and they all appear fine in disk management as GROSS of 8 x 2 TB drives.

  So I'm at a loss here on why it does not work, because it must support up to size 64 to I think (as seen in the Guide of ESXi 5.1 Configuration Maximums). This virtual machine has also 2 other VMDK, one for the OS and the other for a virtual disk of 1 TB, which shouldn't have anything to do with storage PCI RAID card I'm passing. Is the operating system must be installed on the drive VMFS5 to be able to address the large space on a separate PCIe RAID passthrough disk?

  Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the VM guest to see all the 10 GB of RAW space? Also BTW, this isn't a boot disc, only going to be for storage.

  Just to give you a resolution on this issue of old...

  It turns out that the Adaptec card was the problem.

  Later, I put in a 8480E (same Perc5e card) LSI and this enabled VM see more than 2 TB.

  Apparently these cards 8480E LSI may have problems with the help of PCI passthrough, so I wasn't even that, but what I got to do is to create a manual pRDM map using the following command:

  vmkfstools z - /vmfs/devices/disks/vml.0200000000600605b0004cca3019df2cd6bfe575604d6567615241 /vmfs/volumes/524889b9-136860f6-690b-000423dd1e8e/Win7-Ultimate/rdm1.vmdk - a free

  .. and then simply add a disc on this virtual Windows machine, accessing the location of the map rdm1.vmdk file, and it worked. When I started the Windows box he is able to see all the 11 TB of storage now.

  So the strange thing is that with the old card Adaptec ESXi saw the space, but I continued to get an error when you try to create the manual card via the CLI:

  "Unable to create the virtual disk: invalid argument (1441801).

  Then after the installation of the 8480E TA I had this error and was able to successfully create the map. And why it was necessary to create the mapping manually via the CLI it is because option in the Add Wizard disk VSC for RDM has dimmed since the PCI SAS RAID cards are considered 'local storage' from ESX allows only iSCSI or FC storage for storage RDM, but will allow CLI you create manually map that worked.

  In any case, the issue is resolved now...

• Emulator of the UCS and Fibre Channel (PCI Passthrough)

  Hello

  I would like to know if anyone of you knows if emulator UCS supports CF communications and how to configure them.

  I have 2 PCI Fibre Channel interfaces on the host Hardware and I applied PCI Passthrough on the ESXi hypervisor. It works with other virtual machines.

  Thank you very much

  Francesco

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• GROUP - "failure of the ack TLB invalid" or a host freezes when voltage VM with PCI passthrough

  Hello

  in recent weeks, I have the problem that my ESXi host freezes sometimes when the power of a Windows VM to 10 with a NVidia Quadro 2200 PCI passthrough and today I received a GROUP.

  

  In my view, what happens first after installation of the patch released on 23/02/2016.

  Is it possible that an update is responsible for my problem? I think a new clean install with 6.0U1b to test whether an update is causing my problem.

  In the vmkernel.log, this line should be the following line when you start the virtual machine is:

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  The line before this line is the last line of the vmkernel.log:

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  Kind regards

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  The problem disappeared, so something on the motherboard or cpu was broken...

• PCI passthrough?

  Hello everyone

  I would really like to know if with ESXi, it is possible to make pci passthrough.

  I need this because I'm interested in virtualization of an asterisk PBX, but to do so, I need a direct access from the virtual machine to my ISDN PCI cards.

  Hello

  This is not possible with ESXi.

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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• vSphere "There is no device for the PCI Passthrough on the host"

  Hey all,.

  I use a trial version of VMware vSphere 5.1 on a server Dell T - 410 Quad Core - w - 32 GB of RAM.  I'm not under vCenter.  I installed this after attending a class on VMware vSphere there and now I'm just using it because I need to study the materials of many moons.  I left 40 days on the assessment.

  I'm trying to add support for a PCIe card in VMware vSphere for a Linux CentOS client.  (Note that all customers react in the same way).

  When I click on the Client and then 'change settings' > I see the dialog window 'Properties of the Virtual Machine' and the Add button.

  When I click on ADD, I see the following:

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  By clicking on the PCI device in gray reveals that:

  This device cannot be added to this virtual Macine because:

  There is no device for the PCI Passthrough on the host

  ---------------------------------

  I have looked in a number of places but haven't seen any clear information about how to ADD a PCIe or PCI peripheral Passthough.

  Can you tell me messages of the Forum or Documentation for this operation?

  I run a vCenter evaluation copy to pull this off?  (And there are copies of assessment of vCenter even?)

  Thank you

  Tommy

  Select the host, and then you will see the configuration tab.   Advanced settings is at the bottom left.

  OK just see your message... good luck!

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