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I am trying to set up a SATA card (a Star Tech 2 port) for PCI passthrough with the aim of getting two HDDs connected to Xpenology directly. I have dropped in the card and HDDs and set up PCI passthrough on ESXI, rebooted the machine and then added the PCI card as a device on my Xpenology VM but it doesn't show up when I load in to Xpenology.
I am sure I am probably missing something but this area is all new to me so I am still learning. I was trying to boot in to another VM to check if that could see the PCI card and HDDs in it but keep having another issue that I can't boot up any VM with more than 512mb of RAM allocated while the PCI passthrough is enabled and assigned to a device. It gives me an error stating that there are not enough resources available to boot if I set RAM higher than 512mb. With PCI passthrough enabled you have to pre allocate all the memory which I am enabling but then it won't let me boot even though I have the 4gb of RAM and no other VMs running. Turning off the
Any help appreciated.
Cheers.
edit: so it seems regardless of whether add the PCI device or tick the box to pre allocate the RAM or not I can't boot anything up with more than 512mb of RAM now. Not sure what is going on. Fresh install of ESXi 6 from the Dell image. Currently idle after a reboot and ESXi is using 1.32gb of RAM which doesn't seem right?
I am sure I am probably missing something but this area is all new to me so I am still learning. I was trying to boot in to another VM to check if that could see the PCI card and HDDs in it but keep having another issue that I can't boot up any VM with more than 512mb of RAM allocated while the PCI passthrough is enabled and assigned to a device. It gives me an error stating that there are not enough resources available to boot if I set RAM higher than 512mb. With PCI passthrough enabled you have to pre allocate all the memory which I am enabling but then it won't let me boot even though I have the 4gb of RAM and no other VMs running. Turning off the
Any help appreciated.
Cheers.
edit: so it seems regardless of whether add the PCI device or tick the box to pre allocate the RAM or not I can't boot anything up with more than 512mb of RAM now. Not sure what is going on. Fresh install of ESXi 6 from the Dell image. Currently idle after a reboot and ESXi is using 1.32gb of RAM which doesn't seem right?
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