PCI passthrough?

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• 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

  No, unfortunately not.

• 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:

  PCI: 717: 0000:84:00.0 device: TV/VC (0 x 1) card restore offset 114

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

  NET: 2441: on the network of the VM, 0x200000b portID eth0 wks10

  When the virtual machine is running I have no problem...

  Kind regards

  Stefan

  Okay I replaced my server hardware and re-use all (NVidia Quadro, card QLogic FC and Teradici Apex) expansion cards.

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

• 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

• 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!

• 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:

  "PCI Device (not available)".

  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!

• 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...

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

  I tried to use a PCI using PLX9056 chip in a VM, assign to this virtual machine (passthrough).

  PCI card is detected in the virtual machine, but the driver does not install. It seems that ESXi maps areas of PCI memory that are smaller than 4 KB to the wrong address in the virtual machine.

  The PCI bar registers (read of in a virtual machine) indicate this block of memory configuration of PLX9056 (size of 512 bytes) is mapped to the address 0xFF4FEC00. However, there is no data to this (0xFF only) address inside the virtual machine. Review of other addresses, I could see that the data according to the register at the 0xFF4FEC00 address BAR found at 0xFF4FE000 inside the virtual machine.

  Looks like that ESXi is to map all resources of memory PCI to the limits of page (4 KB) that is no problem for those who are 4 k or more. However for those who are smaller, therefore, an incorrect mapping except in the case where BIOS has mapped the memory area reduced to a 4 KB limit.

  This is perhaps the reason why, impossible to use certain cards PCI (e) in ESXi in passthrough mode. According to the pilot, a blue screen or a mistake could be seen inside the virtual machine.

  Hi mihadooand welcome to the VMware communities!

  We have a solution prepared for the issue of the small BARs MMIO mapped correctly, although I can't be sure when it will be available to the public.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

  Thank you

  --

  Darius

• 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.

• HOWTO downgrade ESXi5.1 to ESXi5.0 to fix the bug of passthrough PCI card

  Hello

  I had this problem configuration passthrough on ESXi 5.1 for a winNT 4.0 VM.

  http://blog.Michael.Kuron-Germany.de/2012/10/VMware-ESXi-5-1-0-799733-breaks-PCI-passthrough/

  So I applied the update on my ESXi5.1 to ESXi510-201310001, is not the problem.

  So try to downgrade to ESXi 5.0 by vmkernel re-setup, the installation process is blocked (it no disk to install on)... Maybe what esxi 5.0 is unable to see ESXi5.1 formatted drive.

  * What to do to solve the problem of passthrough? (not enough memory to install ESXi5.5 < 4GB)

  * How can I install ESXi5.0 on my ESXi5.1 installation.

  Thanks for help

  Thank you all for your help,

  I just want to share that ESXi 5.5 must > = 4 GB to install, but does not need 4 GB to operate.

  I added RAM memory in my server to install ESXi5.5 (solved the problem of PCI passthrough) and removed this extra RAM later... and it works perfectly.

  Thank you

• Card PCI-E passthrough

  Hello

  I have a HP DL380p with ESXi 5.1.0 u1 gen8. The machine has a riser card PCI-E with a customized PCI-E card called "VP Mark IV" made and used by a relatively small company. The map is shown with 'lspci' or ' esxcli pci list material. The command esxcli tells me that the map isn't passthrough capable. No matter what I try, I can't it appears in the list of devices passthru.

  Because the map is behind a PCI bridge I disabled the control of ACS: "esxcfg-advcfg - k TRUE disableACSCheck.

  My question:

  (1) I want to move this device to a guest operating system. VMware does need a driver for this card to be able to get through?

  (2) how VMware to determine if a device is capable of passthru?

  (3) any idea what is the problem here?

  
  I have attached a document with outputs of:
  lspci - vp

  esxcli list of pci hardware

  cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf

  Just to know you that we have rescheduled the class of device and PCI passthrough works now!

  new class of device:

  Device class: 0 x 1180

  Device class name: Signal Processing controller

  Fixed a problem.

• Any way to passthrough PCIe on AMD platform?

  I have a nice and inexpensive installation using an Asus M5A88-V with a 1090 t. ESXi 5 running otherwise perfectly working.  I RDM passthrough work and found a cheap SATA card that ESXi recognizes natively (Asmedia 1061).  However the system tells me just that this host does not support PCIe passthrough.  Apparently, VT - d is required, but it is an Intel technology.  Is it possible to do it on an AMD platform?

  I don't know that it is supported with your CPU - http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messageview.cfm?catid=203&threadid=146432.

  The Opteron specifications list the feature - http://sites.amd.com/us/Documents/48101A_Opteron%20_6000_QRG_RD2.pdf - but I can't find the same thing for your processor.

• VMware workstation - PCI switch to OS to solve the lack of host riders invited

  Hi all

  I'm quite new to VMware applications.

  To implement PCI passthrough / directly access hardware PCI by the host OS

  is it possible to just use VMware Workstation? or VMware ESXi OS is necessary?

  In this case:

  -The machine physics processor and card motherboard BIOS supports virtualization.

  -The host OS is Windows 7 64 bit.

  -A PCI card is interrupted and got only Windows XP / Vista drivers (the two 32-bit).

  -VMware Worstation 8.0 running in the host operating system.

  -VM guest OS is Windows XP (32 bit).

  Can I somehow configure direct access to the virtual machine PCI card / guest OS?

  I think that would solve a lot of pilot uncompatibility between 32/64 bit OS versions;

  It would be useful to have work directly in the VMware workstation.

  Or is it now possible only with OS ESXi and is rather simple to use here?

  Thank you very much for the support.

  LD

  VMware Workstation isn't compatible PCI Passthrough, you must run ESX or another product to make it work.

  Linjo

• How to enable configuring passthrough on ESXi5?

  Hello

  I tried enable passthrough on ESXi configuration so that I can install the PCI device on virtual machines, but had no luck.

  It says "host does not support configuring passthrough", but when I click on the tab 'Hardware state' I can see the PCI devices are listed.

  someone knows something like that before? What should I do for that visible to ESXi PCI devices?

  see you soon

  PCI passthrough is not possible on an ESXi host nested If unfortunately even if you BIOS settings made correctly pull-out decision can occur for the ESXi host nsted.

  Is there a reason that you decided to install the ESXi host as a virtual machine?

• ESXI 4.1 and pci serial

  Hi guys,.

  I am new to this forum and a starter in VmWare ESXi. I installed ESXi 4.1 on HP DL360 G4 (HV not supported). He does what it takes very well but there is a problem.

  As I need to connect devices (door and PBX access control system) series and this server has only a single serial port, I've added some additional PCI serial card (SER4037T but also tried with LP-P200A3). I don't know how to initialize this card as additional ports are not available on vSphere for use with virtual machines.

  Such a card requires an additional driver?

  lspci - v lists this card with the proper name.

  "Communication Controller Serial 000:007:01.0 controller: this Technology Co., Ltd. SER4037A (2 x RS232 port).

  + Class 0700: 1409:7168 ' + '.

  PCI passthrough is not an option that my server does not support this option.

  Please notify.

  If there is no native driver for this card of VMware and you can't do PCI passthrough, then unfortunately, you're SOL.

  -Matt

  VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek, Nerd of storage