VMware ESXi 7.0.3 Passthrough PCI issues

 

*** BELOW WORK AROUND SOLUTION STILL NOT WORKING 

1. Passthrough setting not persist. 

https://tinkertry.com/vmware-vsphere-esxi-7-gpu-passthrough-ui-bug-workaround

https://williamlam.com/2020/06/passthrough-of-integrated-gpu-igpu-for-standard-intel-nuc.html

Work around solution is releasing video card usage of ESXi host

by doing this work around ESXi won't display anything to monitor or local display device.

It can be turn on later.

add setting in advanced option in vm

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE
pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = FALSE
pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO = TRUE 

SSH to ESXi host, use below command to release graphic card from ESXi host. 
esxcli system settings kernel set -s vga -v FALSE

below command to get pci info: 

lspci -p 

add pci info to /etc/vmware/passthru.map  

# NVIDIA
#10de  ffff  bridge   false <= commented out 
# GRAPHIC Cards AMD
1002  6818  d3d0     default
1002  aab0  d3d0     default
 
# GRAPHIC Cards NVIDIA 

10de  128b  d3d0     default
10de  0e0f  d3d0     default