Does anyone know anything about virtual shared graphics adapters in ESXI? Has anyone got it to work or seen it work? Is the whole thing a bit hit or miss compatability wise. So far I have found trying to use VT-d pass through a complicated mess with my cheapy amd graphics card, which ultimately ended in a "lifes too short" conclusion trying to get it working. I'd like to try this vSGA stuff but forking out for even a second hand quadro 4000 is a lot of money just to have an experience similar to my VT-d graphics pass through efforts.
Unfortunately not. Quadro 4000 seems to be the lowest end graphics card that's supported as you can see from the web page below. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/69289/en-us
Think it needs a vmware view server to use the technology. So its a no go no matter what way I approach it. Damn you enterprise technology and your enterprise prices!
I wish I was a student! Even so the view server license is not covered under their academic licensing.
I personally got VT-d working with a DVB-C card on my previous server board, but never tried to use it with VGA cards.
Yeah, I had on board bluetooth working on pass through believe it or not. Alas graphics was just not happening. Plus there seemed to be a crazy 2gb ram limit on the vm in order for it to be able to even boot with the graphics card passed through. I think I'll just stick to a vmware workstation server for now