Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:55:30 -0500 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi with PCI Pass Through enabled Message-ID: <aeda390ba2c941f25415c83930d37ed9@dweimer.net>
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Just curious if anyone has any good recommendations of settings for
running FreeBSD under VMware ESXi 5.1 with PCI(e) pass through enabled.
I have been doing some initial testing with a new motherboard processor
and RAM. That I am hoping to be able to run 3 Servers on.
The intended virtual machines for the setup.
1.) A FreeBSD system to run Bacula, which will require PCI pass through
for an eSATA drive dock so backups volumes can be Rotated.
2.) A FreeBSD system to host my web/email server, no pass through
required.
3.) A FreeNAS box host SMB shares and iSCSI, will use a PCI pass
through to allow direct access to 4 Hard drives, attached to a separate
SATA controller.
Current Hardware Information:
eSATA Controller for backups: Koutech IO-PESA111 PCI Express SATA II
(3.0Gb/s) - uses Silicon Image 3132 Chipset
System Board: ASUS F2A85-M PRO FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4)
CPU: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W
Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU)
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
(PC3 12800)
I still need to add an additional controller SATA controller for the
FreeNAS VM, but so far testing with a new machine built for the Bacula
install has only been consistently able to trigger a complete core dump
and crash of the ESXi host machine, sometimes at boot of the VM with PCI
pass through, sometimes not until a load has been applied to the
external hard drive on the Pass through SATA controller.
I have tried the following things to fix this that I have come across
while searching for help.
Added the following to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.pci.enable_msi=0
hw.pci.enable_msix=0
Added the following to the Vmware Virtual Machine Configuration:
pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = "FALSE"
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Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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