Hello,
I have an HP DL380p gen8 with ESXi 5.1.0 u1. The machine has a PCI-E riser board with a custom PCI-E card called "VP Mark IV" made and used by a relatively small company. The card is shown with "lspci" or "esxcli hardware pci list". The esxcli command tells me the card is not passthru capable. No matter what I try, I cannot get it to show up in the list of passthru devices.
Since the card is behind a PCI bridge I have disabled the ACS check: "esxcfg-advcfg –k TRUE disableACSCheck"
My question:
1) I want to pass this device to one guest OS. Does VMware need a driver for this card to be able to pass it through?
2) How does VMware determine if a device is passthru capable?
3) Any other idea's what is the problem here?
I have attached a document with outputs of:
lspci -vp
esxcli hardware pci list
cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf