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1. #Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol mac os x#
2. #Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol 1080p#
3. #Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol manual#

I know ESXi is not built to support proper sound playback via passthrough device, its written somewhere in the documentation. I would already need a dedicated PCI graphics card for each VM and a dedicated PCI USB card for each VM, there would be no room for a dedicated sound card. May be I need a dedicated PCI sound card. Same problem if I try to use a logitec USB headset for sound playback.

#Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol 1080p#

More importantly, the VM can't read a youtube video properly if sound passthrough is enabled, when it can read flawlessly the same 1080p HD video if sound device is not added to the VM.

#Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol mac os x#

I was able quite easily to setup passthrough for the sound controler, but a Mac OS X VM won't recognize it, and a Windows VM can use it but sound is awfully deteriorated, and the driver appears to commit suicide after only few seconds of playback. Unfortunately, Apple hardware does not allow proper sound device passthrough into a VM. You can read the whole story here if you have some interest in using ESXi in a workstation setup: In fact a lot has happened since my last post here. I had great hopes I could just create a blank VM and plug the 4 drives of my regular Mac OS X system. I'm quite disappointed I can't use local SATA hdds as RDM drives in my VMs.

#Mac pro 2 1 run smcfancontrol manual#

I was not able to repair my blunder by manual modification of files on the ESXi storage, I'll have to make a clean install. My ESXi boots, but won't work very well (it looses its storage during the last steps of the boot), and more importantly, I can no longer change this passthru setting, as the ESXi can not longer acces its storage to record the modification I made a huge mistake: don't, DON'T put the SATA bus in passthru mode if the ESXi storage sits on this SATA bus (in fact I didn't intend to do so, I just checked the device by mistake while checking every USB devices). It looks like the embeded vmware video card can't be deleted from the VM. I'll have to find a way to get rid of the vmware screen too. No keyboard (I've pluged in 2), no mouse. I've tried to share every USB ports, but it won't stick after the reboot of the ESXi, and the only devices I could share are the Apple USB/Blutooth bus, my USB xrite i1 color meter, and my USB logitec headphones/mic. So for now, I have no keyboard/mouse but a good screen. I was not able to dedicate USB ports in passthru mode.

Snapshots are one of my motivations about going from physical to virtual.

I've discovered that a VM using a passthru device can't be snapshoted. I've discovered that a PCI card can be used in passthru by only one VM at a time, even if it sports two "devices" (normal display, and hdmi display, shown as different devices) Same thing with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM using the card in passthru. When I start the VM, it reclaims the GPU and the noise stop immediately. I've created a Mac OS X VM, blank (no OS, no boot CD, nothing), configured the ESXi and the VM so that the GPU is used in passthru mode by the VM.