ESXi= 5.1.0 build 838463
MB= ASUS Sabertooth x79
CPU= i7-3930k
GPU1= radeon HD 6870
GPU2= radeon HD 5450
Ram= 32GB
VMs on= synology NAS
i'm able to passthrough eith GPU to linux VM's and the linux VMs 'see's' the hardware, but can't initialize them. VMs are fedora17 xfce x86-64 and linuxmint14 x86-64 cinammon. searched many forums, tried AMD proprietary catalyst drivers and open source ones for radeon.
anyone gotten these cards to work on linux VM's and pass along some sage advice to help out?
tia
dmesg output:
[drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* unable to locate a BIOS ROM
radeon 0000:13:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
radeon: probe of 0000:13:00.0 failed with error -22
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lspci -v | grep -i vga
00:0f.a VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])