Re: VMware - Call me thick

[Peer Oliver Schmidt <posde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 05.07.2010 15:24, schrieb Paul Gordon:
> 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!

Xen has been able to do that for quite some time.

> 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...

They've been using ESXi 4, which, afaik, is the precessor to VSphere, so
in theory it should work in VSphere as well.
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Best regards

Peer Oliver Schmidt
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