Recent content by starbetrayer

I agree

Yes, if you want passthrough of a GPU, go with AMD and do your research.

You can pass Nvidia with Xen but it is a real pain in the ass and require a lot of patching.

Since it is a Z97 it should support VT-d. for your processor, you are probably speaking about the 4790S, and it should support it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_%28microarchitecture%29 Gigabyte VT-d support is not the greatest, Asrock is doing much better.

this should be useful http://www.tinkertry.com/superguide-home-virtualization-server-enthusiasts-colorful-variety-of-esxi-whiteboxes/

Asrock H87M Pro4 http://www.michons.us/2015/01/14/esxi-whitebox/

You can build a machine that will do both, your video card will stay at standard idle power consumption unless you start the VM that uses the video card. Here is a link to the setup I built : http://www.michons.us/2015/01/14/esxi-whitebox/

To the extent of my knowledge radeon R9 290 do not work with ESXi. (see vmware forums) a good article to read for GPU passthrough : http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/ Personally I am passing through an XFX radeon 7850.

I think you should use vmware workstation

http://www.aligrant.com/?p=news/archive&v=2012-03

directpath for the sata controller is not passingthrough with esxi 5.5 ?

good to know

windows 10 support but it can be buggy

There are none, with the update, you are only upgrading the vibs that have a lower revision number than the ones in the image you are installing. That's what people with whiteboxes use.

+1 you probably didnt pay enough :p