Enable PCI Passthrough for NIC cards?

[MattG]

Cant figure out how to toggle/enable PCI Passthrough capable physical NICs.  I found this thread:

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But cant make sense of what is needed to enable PCI Passthrough.

Thanks,

-MattG

[LucD]

You need to know the Id of the device, then you could do something like this

$esxName = 'MyEsx'
$tgtDevice = 'bus:slot.function'

$esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esxName
$dev = $esx.ExtensionData.Config.PciPassthruInfo | where{$_.Id -eq $tgtDevice}

$pciPass = Get-View -Id $esx.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.pciPassthruSystem
$pci = New-Object -TypeName VMware.Vim.HostPciPassthruConfig
$pci.ApplyNow = $true
$pci.PassthruEnabled = $true
$pci.Id = $dev.Id

$pciPass.UpdatePassthruConfig(@($pci))

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[MattG]

Lucd,

THANKS as always!  

I had to change:

$pciPass.UpdatePassthruConfig(@($config))

to

$pciPass.UpdatePassthruConfig(@($pci))

-MattG

[LucD]

Oops, typo.
I corrected the code above.

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