On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh at vmware.com> wrote:
> ESXi 5.0 doesn't have SR-IOV support (it's in the code, but is disabled and > not usable for customers). VMware introduced SR-IOV support, including out of > the box support for Intel Niantic 10GbE NICs, in ESXi 5.1. > You can use PCI passthrough (Directpath) on 5.0 (and 5.1). I found that SR-IOV on Vmware is even more fussy than SR-IOV on Linux. It requires a supported platform with VT-d and PCIe ASPM.
