Questions tagged [passthrough]
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Hyper-V pass-trough disks incorrectly identified as SSDs on guest
I have setup a Windows Server 2012 Essentials guest to run on a Hyper-V host (Windows Server 2012).
A physical HDD (spinning rust) is setup as pass-through to the guest, but it's incorrectly identified as a SSD on the guest (as seen in the drive…

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Can I flash a PCI-E device's Firmware in a VM if the VM has exclusive IOMMU access?
I have a PCI-E Dell Perc 6/i RAID card that I'd like to flash with the latest firmware. Apparently I need either a Redhat / Centos OS or Windows in order to flash the firmware, but I have a VMWare 5.0.1 ESX hypervisor installed on the box and…

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Preventing h/w RAID cards from dropping slow JBOD disks
I'm considering buying a used SAS h/w RAID card for externally attaching HDDs to an HP ProLiant I'm setting up.
However, I only require RAID functionality on some of the drives. Theoretically it should be simple to JBOD the other drives, but some…

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KVM: pass-through SATA hot-swap drive?
I have a SATA hot-swap cage in my Linux box. Is it possible to pass-through the SATA disk which is injected in that cage to a KVM guest? I have multiple disks however the SATA port will be always the same.
Ideally it should work just as without…

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How to permanently attach USB devices to a KVM vserver?
I run a Server using KVM and virt-manager (over SSH). Currently I have the following devices which I want/need in a KVm virtual machine:
+----USB-HUB
+- USB Smartcard Reader #1
+- USB Smartcard Reader #2
They have the following entries in…

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Nvidia Tesla XEN PCIpassthrough
has anyone managed/tried to pci passthrough an nvidia tesla card to a xen domU?

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Setup IIS 6/7 to passthrough to Glassfish v2.x
I need to setup IIS 6 and 7 to pass all request to Glassfish v2.x. Is there a simple tutorial that will get this interaction between IIS and Glassfish working?
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Using a RAID Controller as Pass-thru vs RAID0
I have a server with DellPerc H750 Storage controller.
I want to use the controller as Pass-thru/Non-RAID but I have the below questions:
A) Is it possible in the future to replace the controller with a HBA one without losing data ?
B) If I used…

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Bind/Unbind PCI device on the Ubuntu host
I have to NIC devices on the host:
# list Ethernet PCI devices to find out names
lspci -nn | grep Ethernet
# 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168]…

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Command to find if VT-d or IOMMU is supported or not in linux
I wanted to find out if my Linux server supports PCI passthrough.
For that, I need to know if my CPU has VT-d or IOMMU enabled or not, but I couldn't find the way.
The following is the lscpu command output:
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Architecture: …

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Migrate from IBM Directory Server 8 to MS Active Directory (Windows Server 2019)
We are in a project to migrate users and passwords from IBM Directory Server v8 to Microsoft Active Directory. Use of IBM Directory Integrator (LDAPSync) is referenced in official IBM documentation. I wanted to know if someone has had a similar case…

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Nginx: How to combine ssl_preread_protocol with ssl_preread_server_name (ssh-multiplexing and ssl-sni-passthrough)?
I have the nginx.conf file shown below.
I want to run both ssh and a webserver on port 443/SSL.
Also known as SSL-port-multiplexing.
At the same time, I want to use ssl-passthrough with SNI.
For ssh-multiplexing, I use $ssl_preread_protocol.
For…

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MSSQL Passthrough Database options?
Is there an option out there to create a MSSQL Database that is a passthrough of a sort?
To give the scenario we are in, we have one central large database that is a copy of production that is used for several different teams to develop on. I…

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Is PCIe passthrough on Citrix Xen Hypervisor persistent?
I am virtualising my firewall, NAS and other services to reduce hardware diversity. Specifically I want to run at least PfSense and OpenMediaVault over Citrix Hypervisor (v8 at the time of writing).
This requires switching off network checksum…

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ESXi USB PCIe Passthrough Failing to Connect Connected Devices
I have a fresh install of ESXi 6.7U2 up and running on which I can successfully start VMs. To this setup I've added a StarTech.com 4 Port USB 3.0 Card Adapter (PEXUSB3S44V). This has been configured for pass through following…

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