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sgreszcz

Member Since 17 Jan 2013
Offline Last Active Apr 08 2013 12:48 PM
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#1883583 Graphics Acceleration in ESXi 5.1 and OS X Mountain Lion VM

Posted sgreszcz on 25 January 2013 - 12:47 PM

OK, here is an update of the progress that I've made so far with installing Mountain Lion on my ESXi 5.1 box with GPU passthrough for accelerated graphics. I spent a lot of time looking at these sites and searching with Google to find the most inexpensive and compatible out of box video card for Mountain Lion: http://www.macbreake...hics-cards.html ###### I originally bought a nvidia GT 640, as it looked to be quite compatible with Mountain Lion, but in the end I found out that ESXi passthrough with nvidia cards did not work too well: http://networkingbun...ts/vmdirectpath So I returned the nvidia and spent time researching AMD Radeon cards here: #### I found a Radeon HD6570 for about £40 and set up GPU passthrough in ESXi (I forgot to say that I did install Mountain Lion first without the Radeon card - I don't know if that would make any difference). From your host, select the configuration tab, then "Advanced Settings", then "Edit", and select the A...
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