Unfortunately, I've had no luck getting it to work. Passthrough is working in so far as getting the gfx card to appear in the VM, installing the driver also works, but plugging in a screen causes BSOD (atikmpag.sys), which seems to be the common error.
For reference, my exact setup is:
Mobo...
Holy crap, I honestly thought they were just stalling and hoping we'd "go away" and forget about the issue - I never thought they'd fix this! :D
Well, what a pleasant surprise. I'll see if I can find time to upgrade and check VM passthrough this weekend.
On ESXi 5, planning using a Radeon 4850...
Hmm... Raised my voice in the chat and started babbling about "should have gone with Supermicro" instead. That got a little attention. At least now they have created a ticket for me.
@McKajVah: Have you heard any updates from Tyan on ETA for the BIOS update? I have tried reaching them a few times on the online chat, but all they will tell me is that "the team is working on it" :rolleyes:
Yeah, I know it's a long shot getting it to work with gfx passthrough. I too read the...
I too would like to know the solution to this. I have the exact same setup (same Tyan board) and had the same intentions, i.e. passing through the graphics card to a virtual machine.
Did you find a solution?