RE: VMware - Call me thick

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, as far as I was aware, this was still not a feature of any of
the
mainstream hypervisors. I do recall when I was researching which one to use
I came across one (can't remember the name now) which apparently *did*
support PCI slot mapping directly through to a guest, but it looked like it
was a fairly terse *nix based product with seemingly quite a fair degree of
*nix expertise required to configure it - which isn't me!

I just checked against the latest version of vShpere 4 here in the office,
and so far as I can see, there is no way to add custom hardware to the
settings of a VM, and no way to map specific PCI slots to a guest...

Passing through ports off a PCI based device isn't that same thing as what
we're talking about here... there's no problem using a PCI based serial
port
card for instance, - provided you have the drivers required to make it work
on the host platform of course... - of course, I'd *love* to be proven
wrong, since that would mean that I could finally virtualise my Geovision
box....

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gale
> Sent: 05 July 2010 13:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] VMware - Call me thick
>
> Hi Peer,
>
> What kind of PCI devices?
>
> I have some VMWare machines running but have always held off going
> further as I always believed all PCI hardware wasn't supported (apart
from
> maybe serial cards etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Peer Oliver Schmidt
> Sent: 05 July 2010 13:34
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] VMware - Call me thick
>
> Am 05.07.2010 13:43, schrieb Paul Gordon:
>
> > Therein lies another important factor... - the hardware available
to
> > any running guest machines is limited to only what the
virtualisation
> > product makes available... In practice this pretty much rules out
any&
> > all applications which require specialist hardware - in my case
> > Geovision, but the same would apply to other capture cards as
well...
>
> In my experience this has changed. I am using USB devices in VMs. And
I
> know people are using PCI devices in their VMs.
> --
> Best regards
>
> Peer Oliver Schmidt
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