TV server on VMware ESXi 4.1 (2 Viewers)
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Hey Lyve,
i'm happy to hear that this works for you, because i'm also thinking of adding the tv-card into my server.
Unfortunatly i have xen installed yet, and also many VMs running in it. But i think of switching to VMWare.
What i want to ask:
Did it work with the two cards?
Do you use the free version of ESXi?
Is the IOMMU support of the motherboard an urgend requirement?
i'm happy to hear that this works for you, because i'm also thinking of adding the tv-card into my server.
Unfortunatly i have xen installed yet, and also many VMs running in it. But i think of switching to VMWare.
What i want to ask:
Did it work with the two cards?
Do you use the free version of ESXi?
Is the IOMMU support of the motherboard an urgend requirement?
I can answer from my setup.
Have not got 2 cards working as my main board is not compatible with VIA USB PCI cards, very annoying, currently on a Beta bios provided by the tech support guys but still no joy. You are limited to 4 PCI devices per VM and some cards appear as multiple devices, my TD-500's are 3 devices (hub and 2 tunners).
I am using the free ESXi 4.1 Upgrade 1, this supports more whitebox hardware and happily uses my onboard SATA and NIC (GA-Q57M Main Board).
Yes IOMMU has to be supported in both the motherboard chipset and CPU, VT-d on intel, VT-x is not enough.
Have not got 2 cards working as my main board is not compatible with VIA USB PCI cards, very annoying, currently on a Beta bios provided by the tech support guys but still no joy. You are limited to 4 PCI devices per VM and some cards appear as multiple devices, my TD-500's are 3 devices (hub and 2 tunners).
I am using the free ESXi 4.1 Upgrade 1, this supports more whitebox hardware and happily uses my onboard SATA and NIC (GA-Q57M Main Board).
Yes IOMMU has to be supported in both the motherboard chipset and CPU, VT-d on intel, VT-x is not enough.
Ok, i orderd a new MoBo yesterday with IOMMU, because i know my CPU already has the function. Also the PCI Card "Mystique" i orderd, because my old TV Card seems to be damaged.
I'm looking forward to receive it, and hope, everything will work, as i wish
I'm looking forward to receive it, and hope, everything will work, as i wish
CyDFect
The same applies for AMD, IOMMU is mandatory to route PCI cards into a VM, I ordered a new mainboard only because of that.
I was NOT able to use both cards at the same time, I deactivated one and live with it at the moment. I contacted Terratec support but they rejected, saying it's VMwares fault. Unforunately, no answer to my thread in the VMware communities yet.
I also use the free ESXi 4.1 Update 1, no problems so far. A really nice thing, I only miss a few functions from the "big" version that we use in our company, but nothing critical. (e.g. usage history for more than 1 hour, no SNMP support to connect to Opsview).
I don't want to miss it. I never have to go into my basement again to insert a CD or whatever....
The same applies for AMD, IOMMU is mandatory to route PCI cards into a VM, I ordered a new mainboard only because of that.
I was NOT able to use both cards at the same time, I deactivated one and live with it at the moment. I contacted Terratec support but they rejected, saying it's VMwares fault. Unforunately, no answer to my thread in the VMware communities yet.
I also use the free ESXi 4.1 Update 1, no problems so far. A really nice thing, I only miss a few functions from the "big" version that we use in our company, but nothing critical. (e.g. usage history for more than 1 hour, no SNMP support to connect to Opsview).
I don't want to miss it. I never have to go into my basement again to insert a CD or whatever....
But it should not be addicted of the PCI bridges (i hope) :-/
Well new MoBo was delivered, but even this was the wrong... (Sometimes a "G" in the product name matter
). The next one will be deliverd today. (For those wo interests it's an ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3)I hope i can do some tests in the night, but i think i can't do much till sunday. But i will post my experience here.
So, sorry that it took so long, but i was a bit busy, also with the server:
actual state: its not running at me.
First i had Problems installing ESXi becuase of the supported networkcards (i have an Realtek NIC inside)
Than it didnt want to accept my dvd-rom
Never the less, i installed it and also could updated it with 4.1
So I installed an Windows Vista VM, and gave the PCI card to it.
But now i only problems in the device manager. THere are 34 errors with the PCI Express Standart Root Port, saying it cannot find enough free Resources and also on Base System Device where no drivers are installed for, and also cant find anythin by online search
Well i Keep trying!
actual state: its not running at me.
First i had Problems installing ESXi becuase of the supported networkcards (i have an Realtek NIC inside)
Than it didnt want to accept my dvd-rom
Never the less, i installed it and also could updated it with 4.1
So I installed an Windows Vista VM, and gave the PCI card to it.
But now i only problems in the device manager. THere are 34 errors with the PCI Express Standart Root Port, saying it cannot find enough free Resources and also on Base System Device where no drivers are installed for, and also cant find anythin by online search
Well i Keep trying!