Questions tagged [passthrough]
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Google Chrome: passthrough Windows authentication
The I.T. dept is considering allowing installation and automated deployment of Google Chrome browser to 100+ desktops. One of the requirements is for domain credentials to be passed through. The desired behaviour is the same as Internet Explorer.
An…
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How do I enable KVM device passthrough in Linux?
I have an MSI-GD65 Gaming motherboard and an Intel i7 4790. VT-D is enabled in the CPU Features section of the bios.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and when I try and detach a device, I get the following message:
# virsh nodedev-detach…
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ESXi 6.5 server (no vSphere) sched.mem.min error related to PCI passthrough
I have an ESXi 6.5 server without vSphere I've been running for a couple years. I have a VM with PCI passthrough of a cougar point SATA controller from the SM X9SCL-F-O motherboard.
I wanted to move the CP controller to another VM, but no matter…
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Filesystem passthrough functionality in Centos 6.2?
I have a CentOS 6.3 machine currently running 2 virtualized CentOS 6.2 machines via KVM/QEMU/Libvirt. I'm trying to setup filesystem passthrough between the guests and the host. However the option is grayed out in the Virtualization Manager with the…
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KVM Pass through disk Partition - By Label or UUID
Normally, when I passthrough a disk to a VM I use the entire disk. I am looking at attempting to passthrough a partition in KVM. First question is that possible/ok? Looking at this doc it seems to be the way to go which supprised…
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Cannot remove passthrough setup on ESXi
I have an ESXi host, but it does not have local hard disk. It use disks which are shared via fibre channel. Afterthat, I setup passthrough for the fibre channel. After rebooting ESXi host, we cannot find any datastores. And I also cannot remove…
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How to configure NGINX as proxy for local SMTP server?
I am doing some testing with the NodeJS smtp-server module. It exposes a listening SMTP server on any specified port. SMTP usually runs on port 25, but in order to run the Node app as a non-root user, I am prevented from binding to ports below…
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NVIDIA QUADRO M4000 vGPU - ESXI 6.0.3 - GPU Passthrough
I'm trying to do a GPU passthrough to a vm (2008 64bit r2) ESXI 6.0.3. After the GPU passthrough and installing the NVidia drivers. I have disabled the VMWARE SVGA. Now in the device manager it shows only the Quadro M4000 enabled with the VMWARE…
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Is it possible to pass through a IDE tape drive to a virtual machine?
My department does conversions for people who bought our software to get their data out of their old system and in to our system. Often they will be running odd or archaic systems that the only way to get the data to us is a tape backup.
Currently…
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Scott Chamberlain
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Is it possible to boot from a passthrough LSI 2008 SAS controller under VMware ESXi?
I currently have Solaris 11 Express running on bare metal. I'd like to convert the machine to an ESXI host and run the existing os as a virtual machine.
I have ESXI setup, the virtual machine made, if I boot the vm from the recovery disk the drives…
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Error dismounting pcie device windows - The current configuration does not allow for OS control of the PCI Express bus
I have all of the virtualization options I know of in my bios enabled. I'm able to do VFIO in linux to a windows guest, but I'd like to do windows with passthrough to a linux guest using hyper-v. I get the following error attempting to dismount the…
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Which USB controller is device plugged into on ESXi host
I need to pass through a USB controller (not just the USB device) to a guest on an ESXi 6.7 host. Is there a way (without trial and error) to determine which controller a device is plugged into?
So if I wanted to pass through the controller which…
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USB passthrough (non storage) to XenServer 7 VM
I have migrated a server from physical to virtual using XenServer 7. Nevertheless, we need now a USB dongle for security purposes but have not been able to find the way to properly pass it to the virtual machine.
Most resources point to using USB…
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ldap/AD proxy: Unable to bind using sAMAccountName, but last name and first name is able to bind
I am attempting to set up a pass-through proxy to Active Directory, using ldap on Debian Wheezy. The slapd.conf file is below. I can bind just find by using lastname, first name:
ldapsearch -x -h localhost -b "OU=Site-Users,DC=mycompany,DC=local" -D…
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How can I setup PCI passthrough for my HighPoint 1144A USB 3.0 card under ESXi 5.1?
I have an Apple Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) with a HighPoint RocketU 1144A USB 3.0 PCI-express card installed. Given that VMware ESXi 5.1 doesn't support USB 3.0 for host-attached devices, I am trying to attach the USB 3.0…
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