Not really, just need to either wait for a supported driver or use a PCI-ex network card. I’m going out today to try and grab a network card to use in the meantime.
Hi, did you manage to install and boot ESXi with other network card? Im going to buy z87 board+haswell proc., but cant find any info if it is working with ESXi.
A week or so ago, I asked Supermicro about VT-d support on a Z87 based Motherboard (C7Z87-OCE), and they said that the integrated NIC doesn’t work with VT-d because the Chipset doesn’t support it, as the NIC is connected to a Chipset PCIe lane. This seems to be your issue. They said there was a workaround provided by Intel for that, may want to read here:
Basically, what I understanded so far is that you can have multiple DMA Remapping Engines (In other words, several devices providing their own support for VT-d/IOMMU virtualization), so you can have BOTH Processor and Chipset providing support for it (But would need a Q87 or C226 for that). However, that is just my current understanding. After googling earth and beyond, I still don’t find an in-depth explanation about all this.
While so far it seems guaranteed that you will at least have VT-d support at the PCIe slots that are connected to the Processor PCIe lanes, I don’t get why if you’re not using a VT-d capable Chipset, you can still do USB passthrough, which doesn’t make too much sense considering the NIC was unable due to Chipset not supporting it.
Does this mean we won’t be able to use the ASRock Home Cloud feature within ESXi?
Hmmm… :\
Not really, just need to either wait for a supported driver or use a PCI-ex network card. I’m going out today to try and grab a network card to use in the meantime.
Hi, did you manage to install and boot ESXi with other network card? Im going to buy z87 board+haswell proc., but cant find any info if it is working with ESXi.
Not yet, should have the new NIC this week sometime.
OK, I just updated my post. ESXi loaded fine with an Intel Gigabit card.
And does it support vt-d? 🙂
Considering building an ESXi box based on Haswell too.
Looks like it 😎
Hi, found some home made drivers for i217:
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/2907&usg=ALkJrhjviMJqVKYgg1viIclnMeHVzjvd7g
A week or so ago, I asked Supermicro about VT-d support on a Z87 based Motherboard (C7Z87-OCE), and they said that the integrated NIC doesn’t work with VT-d because the Chipset doesn’t support it, as the NIC is connected to a Chipset PCIe lane. This seems to be your issue. They said there was a workaround provided by Intel for that, may want to read here:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2013-07/msg00237.html
Basically, what I understanded so far is that you can have multiple DMA Remapping Engines (In other words, several devices providing their own support for VT-d/IOMMU virtualization), so you can have BOTH Processor and Chipset providing support for it (But would need a Q87 or C226 for that). However, that is just my current understanding. After googling earth and beyond, I still don’t find an in-depth explanation about all this.
While so far it seems guaranteed that you will at least have VT-d support at the PCIe slots that are connected to the Processor PCIe lanes, I don’t get why if you’re not using a VT-d capable Chipset, you can still do USB passthrough, which doesn’t make too much sense considering the NIC was unable due to Chipset not supporting it.