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In Topic: Graphics Acceleration in ESXi 5.1 and OS X Mountain Lion VM
28 February 2013 - 09:51 AM
sebus, on 27 February 2013 - 09:21 PM, said:
How to make VGA dummy
Subus, thanks - I did do that directly on the VGA port on my Radeon card. The Radeon card I have has three connectors - VGA, HDMI and DVI-D. I didn't realise that the DVI is "D" - digital only - so it doesn't have any analogue signalling, and you can't use a DVI-I to VGA converter and connect to that with the 3 resistors. I was able to get it working with the VGA port, but you need to have a monitor, or the resistors, in place on the VGA port from first cold bootup of the ESXi host. You will not get any signal on the VGA if you plug it in later.
When the Radeon is on my motherboard, it seems to disable the onboard VGA and uses the Radeon to show BIOS and ESXi boot up sequence (on VGA or DVI, haven't tried HDMI). Then part of the way through the bootup the ESXi screen freezes until you start up Mountain Lion guest on the vSphere client, and then the video passthrough takes over and you get the OSX desktop on your monitor.
The performance is much better when the GPU is enabled, especially when using screen sharing.
For now I have sound and accelerated video on a headless setup. I will try the USB passthrough for mouse/sound/keyboard and I re-purchased the ASUS MIO 888 soundcard to see if I can get it working in passthrough with kext modifications. This would give me a good workstation configuration.
In Topic: ESXi 5 Mac OS X Unlocker
27 February 2013 - 04:55 PM
Does anyone know how to get rid of this when you boot OSX in ESXi5.0? I don't see this in 5.1. Thanks!
In Topic: ESXi 5 Mac OS X Unlocker
27 February 2013 - 03:39 PM
madmax14304, on 27 February 2013 - 03:07 PM, said:
Yeah, that'd be great. I was able to install ML from USB stick on 5.0u2, but it's not booting. I wonder if I just need to add a line to the vmx. Thanks
Pasted osx.vmx here: http://pastebin.com/4mjYx2Xi
In Topic: ESXi 5 Mac OS X Unlocker
27 February 2013 - 03:01 PM
madmax14304, on 27 February 2013 - 02:32 PM, said:
sgreszcz, Do you know what extra parms in the vmx were set when installing on 5.1? I'm trying to run it on u2 as well due to vmware destroying USB passthrough.
To be honest, I have no idea. Yesterday I re-installed ML on ESXi5.1 as I wanted a clean start after playing around with several virtual sound drivers. I was going to try to boot ML on ESXi 5.0u2 using physical media today after reading further back in this thread. For a laugh I just tried to import the Mountain Lion 5.1 install .vmx into the ESXi5.0u2 inventory, and it booted.
It does something strange by turning the vSphere console screen all white when idle for a while, but it comes back when I move the cursor. Strange, I don't remember it doing this in ESXi 5.1.
I can attach the .vmx if you want to see it