UPDATE:
ISSUE Resolved, see later post named "FINAL UPDATE" for guide and more information.
So, I am super new to VMware vsphere, and gpu passthrough, but after the past two days of trying things and googling, I have hit a huge wall with VMware, and I just don't know what to do, so I was hoping someone here had experienced something similar, or could help.
I installed ESXi on an hp DL580, and installed a gpu (AMD R5-240). The gpu seemed to work fine when I installed Windows sever on the hardware directly, so I switched over to ESXi.
I added the PCI expess cards to VMs, but now when I try to start them I get this fun error message.
Failed to power on virtual machine VM3. The systemId does not match the current system or the deviceId, and the vendorId does not match the device currently at 11:0.0.
I reserved the memory like it asked me to.
I gave the integrated GPU priority in the bios, so the vmware connect to this computer screen shows up on the integrated VGA connector (as I thought that the output of the graphics card may have been causing this issue).
But the thing is, I can't remove the pci device from any of the VMs, like, I'll remove it, hit save, and then I'll go back into the VM settings, and somehow the gpu/pci express device is still there!
So I am basically unable to remove the gpu. The actual device itself is doing strange things, it's grayed out and "active" but why is it active? it's not doing anything! or is it?
I can't find anything on google that remotely helps, the best suggestion is: "remove the pci express device and re add it" and as far as I can tell, that is literally impossible.
ISSUE Resolved, see later post named "FINAL UPDATE" for guide and more information.
So, I am super new to VMware vsphere, and gpu passthrough, but after the past two days of trying things and googling, I have hit a huge wall with VMware, and I just don't know what to do, so I was hoping someone here had experienced something similar, or could help.
I installed ESXi on an hp DL580, and installed a gpu (AMD R5-240). The gpu seemed to work fine when I installed Windows sever on the hardware directly, so I switched over to ESXi.
I added the PCI expess cards to VMs, but now when I try to start them I get this fun error message.
Failed to power on virtual machine VM3. The systemId does not match the current system or the deviceId, and the vendorId does not match the device currently at 11:0.0.
I reserved the memory like it asked me to.
I gave the integrated GPU priority in the bios, so the vmware connect to this computer screen shows up on the integrated VGA connector (as I thought that the output of the graphics card may have been causing this issue).
But the thing is, I can't remove the pci device from any of the VMs, like, I'll remove it, hit save, and then I'll go back into the VM settings, and somehow the gpu/pci express device is still there!
So I am basically unable to remove the gpu. The actual device itself is doing strange things, it's grayed out and "active" but why is it active? it's not doing anything! or is it?
I can't find anything on google that remotely helps, the best suggestion is: "remove the pci express device and re add it" and as far as I can tell, that is literally impossible.
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