Elevate Your Virtualization with Device Passthrough A Guide to /etc/vmware/passthru.map

VMware ESXi Dump Collector Support. VMware ESXi Dump Collector ... maps it to the SR-IOV passthrough adapter. The host validates all ... Note that VMware does not support connecting tape libraries to ESX(i) for VM pass-through. What the VMware KB do is the "pass-through" ... I tested the performance of USB 3.0 passthrough on my whitebox ESXi ... esxi host etc. The same unfortunately also happens if the stick has ... ... ESXi. e.g. Intel C602 SATA controller etc ... /etc/vmware/passthru.map 8086 8d62 d3d0 false #vmhba0 8086 8d02 d3d0 ... USB pass-through to map USB devices directly to the proper VM; USB disks directly from the ESXi, but with several limitations. Let's discuss ... Navigate to the file "/etc/vmware/passthru.map" that controls how specific devices should reset. This file includes ------- ... “PCI Passthrough – or VMDirectPath I/O as VMware calls it – is not at all a new feature. It was originally introduced back in vSphere 4.0 after ... The trick is to identify it correctly and add an entry to the /etc/vmware/passthru.map file. TL;DR: add the following to /etc/vmware/passthru. The VM would start but when i shutdown or reboot the VM the ESX hosts crashed and rebooted. After i added the bold line below in /etc/vmware/passthru.map and ... ... passthrough mode to non-passthrough mode: Edit the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file by changing the owner of the PCI device from passthru to vmkernel.