Apologies - I tried a bunch of things...
1, Existing 3615 running DSM 6.2.3 in a VM (ESXi 6.7) with a couple old LSI cards already passed through; passed the 9305-16i through but no drives recognized.
2, Ran an Ununtu VM and passed thru the 9305; drives showed up just fine.
3, Created new 3617 VM using Jun's 1.03.b synoboot untouched (except for grub.cfg changes for S/N, mac & menu entry); passthu 9305 but no drives recognized
4, Updated synoboot for 3617 with extra.lzma, rd.gz & zimage from the first post on this thread (6.2.2??); no drives recognized
I didn't do either of these (not really sure where to look at logs)
When setting up the 3617xs VM I added synoboot.vmdk drive as per tutorial, and passthru 9305 with a few drives... do I need to add any extra virtual drives? Should I update the synoboot img with 6.2.3 rd.gz, zimage and some new extra.lzma?