RE: VMware - Call me thick

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xen - that was it... I Looked at that product but it seemed way too
complicated to administer, despite the obvious attraction of being able to
map PCI resources...

It's such an obvious requirement, I'm surprised it has taken so much longer
to permeate this feature into the feature set of the "mainstream"
products....

Still, if it's there now in VMware, that's definitely worth looking into! -
thanks for the pointers, I'll definitely be doing some research now to see
if I can get a GV card to work inside a VM...

:-)

P.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Peer Oliver Schmidt
Sent: 05 July 2010 14:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] VMware - Call me thick

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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