ESXi 8 passthrough re-enable after reboot

[Tom40]

Since the upgrade to ESXi 8 on Intel NUC 11 whenever I restart the host I have to reactivate pass through on my pcie gpu.

Seems like an old issue from ESXi 7 which was fixed and was working fine but seems to be back in ESXi 8.

Are we going backwards…..

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[William Lam]

You most likely disabled VMKernel from claiming the device but perhaps it was re-enabled. In any case, go 3/4 down in this blog post https://williamlam.com/2020/06/passthrough-of-integrated-gpu-igpu-for-standard-intel-nuc.html for kernel option to persist the passthrough

[Tom40]

Thanks I’ll give that a try, but in 7.0U3 this wasn’t necessary. Only on the VM itself I had to disable the the standard vga to get hardware transcoding working.

[Tom40]

That did the trick many thanks!