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<blockquote data-quote="fujistick" data-source="post: 595473" data-attributes="member: 65261"><p>I've had a bit of a play and had at least some partial success.</p><p></p><p>With no raid card installed, VT-d turned on in the BIOS, a PCIe Hauppauge HVR-2200 card and a single SATA drive, I installed ESXi 4 successfully. I created a test VM and installed Vista SP1. I've installed none of the usual windows updates yet, except the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which was required for MP TVServer setup.</p><p></p><p>I configured the VMDirectPath in ESXi to enable PCI/PCIe passthrough for the tv tuner card, and assigned it to the test VM. This is where the problems started, the VM would no longer power on, logging the following event during the VMWare "BIOS": (along with some woffle about support arrangments and reporting it to the ESX team)</p><p></p><p>[CODE]*** VMware ESX internal monitor error *** vcpu-0:PCIPassthru: Interrupt failed to register..[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>I tried disabling Interrupt Remapping in the VT-d submenu in the BIOS without luck. I tried changing slots the tv card was in, and then the card was not listed in the PCI passthrough configuration at all? I changed slots again, and SUCCESS!</p><p></p><p>The card was listed again, and when assigned to the VM, booted ok. Vista detected the new hardware and installed some built in drivers. (I haven't updated these yet)</p><p></p><p>It is displaed in windows Device Manager under "Sound, video and game controllers" as "Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200 (8980)". At first the card didn't appear in MP's TVServer config app, however, after a reboot or 2, it was listed. All the channels scanned ok on both tuners.</p><p></p><p>To test, I was going to use my current HTPC as a client hooked into the VM TVServer, however, right now there is still a network issue of some sort as i can't ping my current HTPC from the VM or vice versa, despite the fact both machines got an IP from the same router and can both see the net.</p><p></p><p>The next steps are:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">fix the network issue and test with current HTPC acting as a client.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">work out what combination of PCI slot changes and/or BIOS VT-d configurations work, and which ones don't work:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> - will 2 x PCIe tuner cards work?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> - is there something wrong with my motherboard and/or some of the PCIe slots? - was this causing the RAID card issues?</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Do you mean the tv tuner card didn't show up in Windows Device Manager, or in didn't show up in MP TVServer?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fujistick, post: 595473, member: 65261"] I've had a bit of a play and had at least some partial success. With no raid card installed, VT-d turned on in the BIOS, a PCIe Hauppauge HVR-2200 card and a single SATA drive, I installed ESXi 4 successfully. I created a test VM and installed Vista SP1. I've installed none of the usual windows updates yet, except the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which was required for MP TVServer setup. I configured the VMDirectPath in ESXi to enable PCI/PCIe passthrough for the tv tuner card, and assigned it to the test VM. This is where the problems started, the VM would no longer power on, logging the following event during the VMWare "BIOS": (along with some woffle about support arrangments and reporting it to the ESX team) [CODE]*** VMware ESX internal monitor error *** vcpu-0:PCIPassthru: Interrupt failed to register..[/CODE] I tried disabling Interrupt Remapping in the VT-d submenu in the BIOS without luck. I tried changing slots the tv card was in, and then the card was not listed in the PCI passthrough configuration at all? I changed slots again, and SUCCESS! The card was listed again, and when assigned to the VM, booted ok. Vista detected the new hardware and installed some built in drivers. (I haven't updated these yet) It is displaed in windows Device Manager under "Sound, video and game controllers" as "Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200 (8980)". At first the card didn't appear in MP's TVServer config app, however, after a reboot or 2, it was listed. All the channels scanned ok on both tuners. To test, I was going to use my current HTPC as a client hooked into the VM TVServer, however, right now there is still a network issue of some sort as i can't ping my current HTPC from the VM or vice versa, despite the fact both machines got an IP from the same router and can both see the net. The next steps are: [LIST] [*]fix the network issue and test with current HTPC acting as a client. [*]work out what combination of PCI slot changes and/or BIOS VT-d configurations work, and which ones don't work: [*] - will 2 x PCIe tuner cards work? [*] - is there something wrong with my motherboard and/or some of the PCIe slots? - was this causing the RAID card issues? [/LIST] Do you mean the tv tuner card didn't show up in Windows Device Manager, or in didn't show up in MP TVServer? [/QUOTE]
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