Tesla P100 GPU Passthrough?

[asvinp]

I have a Tesla P100 GPU and I'm trying to passthrough to a VM on ESXi 6 which is on a Dell PowerEdge R730.

Adding the parameter doesn't seem to work for me. The GPU can be added to the Vsphere passthrough list (Advance Settings). After that I set up a Win 10 vm and installed it on EFI and used the parameter,"pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO", and in Windows it sees an unknown 3D Video Controller (Before and after installing VMWare Tools). The Nvidia Tesla drivers don't install as it says the version of Win is not supported and the graphics card can't be found, even though, the driver was from Nvidia for Win 10 and the GPU was added as a PCI device to the VM. Truly appreciate any help as I couldn't find much information online.

[JoshSimons]

It sounds like you may have seen the blog entry below?

VMware | OCTO Blog

You said you used pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO="TRUE", but did you also use pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB="32" (for a single P100)?

Also check that you have set the BIOS "above 4GB" mapping option correctly in the host BIOS.

Note that if you are not using 6.5 and are using 6.0 instead, you should use at least 6.0u3.

Josh Simons

[Baefisch]

i do have nearly the same situation.

I am on 6.0 U3. Device can be added to vm Set all parameters.

But i cannot see any device in windows.

This is my config:

pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO="TRUE"

pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB = "32"

pciPassthru0.id = "00000:010:00.0"

pciPassthru0.deviceId = "0x15f8"

pciPassthru0.vendorId = "0x10de"

pciPassthru0.systemId = "576cdd74-0d85-0676-65b7-0025b50002ab"

pciPassthru0.present = "TRUE"

pciPassthru0.pciSlotNumber = "192"

Is it correct, that i do not have to install any driver?