I'm in the process of upgrading my ESX hosts from 6.0 u3 up to 6.7 u3.
I did one host (X10SRH) that is running a NAPP-IT vm (from OVA) that has a IBM HBA passed through and had no issues.
I then did my other host (SM X10SRL + E2630 V4) with my main NAPP-IT VM that has a DELL HBA passed through and now that VM won't boot.
It gives an error about virtual nested paging not being compatible with PCI Passthrough.
I took some stabs to try to debug:
I can revert back to ESXI 6.0 and rebuild the napp-it VM I guess, but i'm looking for more options!
I did one host (X10SRH) that is running a NAPP-IT vm (from OVA) that has a IBM HBA passed through and had no issues.
I then did my other host (SM X10SRL + E2630 V4) with my main NAPP-IT VM that has a DELL HBA passed through and now that VM won't boot.
It gives an error about virtual nested paging not being compatible with PCI Passthrough.
I took some stabs to try to debug:
- I've ensured that "Expose Hardware Assisted Virtualization to the Guest" is unchecked along with adding vhv.enabled = "FALSE" to the vmx file.
- I've also tried enabling "Expose Hardware Assisted Virtualization to the Guest" and adding vhv.allowPassthru = "TRUE" without luck.
I can revert back to ESXI 6.0 and rebuild the napp-it VM I guess, but i'm looking for more options!