Good evening,
I am having an issue getting hardware passthrough to work. I am running ESXi 5.1 (free license) and trying to nest 4.1 (free license) inside it. In the 4.1 settings, I have tried setting the EPT / RVI setting to hardware/hardware, as well as Automatic. Both result in the following message:
Warning message on ESXi 4.1: Virtualized Intel
VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESX virtual machine.
You will only be able to run 32-bit nested virtual
machines.
I have heard all sorts of things to get this working. This ranges from manually editing the VMX file (tried), to locking the memory (tried), to setting the EPT setting to Automatic rather than setting it manually (tried). All result in the same above message. EPT is enabled in the BIOS and EPT is most definitely doable on this processor (E5-2650). Any ideas to get this working? If you need logs, can you tell me where to get them? (I see other threads request vmware.log but the only dump I get from the vSphere Client is huge and made up of a gzip file and individuals in a folder)
The ESXi 4.1 VM under Network adapters says that DirectPath I/O is not supported and one of the reasons it lists is that the host is not configured for it. I know it is experimental but hopefully something can be figured out for this.
Thanks for the help!
Sincerely,
Cody Weaver