Hello,
I have an esxi 5.1.0 with 8 pci passthrough configured devices:
- 2 go to one particular VM
- 4 to another
- 1 to a 3rd one and
- 1 to the 4th one.
According to https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1010789 this should be all good.
Problem is that powering up the first 2 VMs (so totaling 6 passed through devices) I can only power up (and have device passed through ok) one of the 3rd/4th VMs but not both.
The devices appears to be passed through, show up in guest OS but I get various errors while the driver tries to load it up. If I only start either one of the 2, all is good.
So the question: is there some way of having all 8 devices passed through ok? Something like the pciHole setting or whatever other trickery that would work.
In case it matters, the devices are: 1 video card (which shows up as 2 devices), 5 USB controllers (mix of onboard and pcie cards) and 1 onboard NIC
There are also 4 mapped raw luns in case that also counts towards something.
Thanks.
PS I tried to upgrade to 6.0 when it came out but ti didn't recognize some card I had so upgrading is not a real option here. I think I had the same issue with 5.5