SantiagoDraco

There's a ton of youtube videos on this entire process.

I'm running 5.2 in the mean time and it works just fine. No rush to upgrade it to 6.0. Would much rather have a stable dependable release than to have it rushed just so we can get some new features we might not even really need.

LSI 9201-16i LSI 9211-8i

Hi all, I've seen references to using PCI passthrough with the LSI 9201 controller with Xpenology (using 5.2 at the moment) and I'm having no luck. Here's what I've done so far. 1. Installed and configured 5.2 as a VM under ESXi (no passthrough yet) and it works fine. Boots without issues. Only issue I do have, which is minor, is that the VM BIOS won't boot from the virtual CD/ISO by default and I have to enter the VM BIOS at every restart to select it manually. In other words the VM BIOS won't "save" the boot order. 2. I then went into ESXi via Vcenter and first added the LSI controller as an available PCI passthrough device. I did this by targeting the esxi host > configure > hardware > edit > selected the LSI controller (checked it's box) and saved/ok. 3. I then rebooted the esxi host. After restart I targeted the Xpenology VM and went to configure > VM Hardware > Edit > New device > PCI Device (the new PCI device adds to the list as the LSI Logic/Symbios device). I assumed that was all but I think I'm missing some other steps here to make the Xpenology VM see the device properly. Maybe some config I'm supposed to edit? In any case after doing the above I power on the VM and it displays the Xpenology title and then the VM crashes and powers down (you don't see the crash... the console just goes to a "VMWare connecting" screen since the VM is now down). I've searched for posts but can't seem to find anything specific on setting this up properly or even how to know if my hardware supports PCI passthrough properly (running an ASUS X58 Sabertooth with an Intel i7 950 processor.) Thanks in advance!

Super excited about this release. Thanks for the hard work for the community!