ESXI and Infiniband issues

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I have a Mellanox MHEA28-XT. I have enabled passthrough on my mbb. I have enabled it in ESXI passthrough and rebooted the server. I have added it to the VM devices list. However when I try to start the VM my EXRI looses connection. On the server itself there is a purple error screen. Anyone else got this to work?
 
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Darn! I think I have to get rid of ESXI as I need to use the infiniband card :(

Not sure what to do! Install Ubuntu as the host with Vmware Workstation ontop or Win 7 as host.
 
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Been following the guide here: http://davidhunt.ie/wp/?p=2291

It looked promising but unfortunately nothing works. I got up to the reboot stage after installing opensm and configuring /etc/network/interfaces and suddenly all my network connections are gone. I am also unable to ping the machine.
 
Unfortunately I think I will have to abandon this project and sell all my hardware. The PERC does not work, the Mellanox card does not work and now there is no output to my monitor. Basically everything I bought is now a pile of scrap!
 
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Hmm I followed his guide with my Ubuntu VM and it worked a treat. Unfortunately I'm a complete Linux n00b so don't know what to suggest other than starting again just in case you missed a step?
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Just redid all the steps. When i try to bring up the network interfaces it says it cannot find the ib0 device.

The kernel recognises it:
05:00.0 Memory controller: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 [InfiniHost III Ex HCA Flash Recovery] (rev a0)
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But in ifcong the device ib0 is not listed.
 
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