vmWare supporting Avnet Virtex-5 PCIe board

[maverick]

Hi,
I am planning to install vmWare on one of my server machines and create virtual servers on it. I need to access a Virtex 5 PCIe board from Avnet from the virtual environment.
Q1. Does vmWare support accessing third party hardware resources?
Q2. Is there a list of devices supported by vmWare? Any links?
Q3. Any tutorial/ guide available to do this?

Regards

 

[rupertlssmith@googlemail.]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:16:42 AM UTC+1, maverick wrote:

Hi,

I am planning to install vmWare on one of my server machines and create virtual servers on it. I need to access a Virtex 5 PCIe board from Avnet from the virtual environment.

Hi,

This may not answer your question about vmWare, but I have had to read some of the VirtualBox manual recently and saw this section about PCI pass-through:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough

So it is certainly possible to virtualize PCI devices in a generic way. I have no idea how well this works or not. Hope this is of some help to you.

Rupert