ello ESXer,
I have a question about directpath a GPU.
But first off all here are my system specs:
#CPU AMD FX810
#MOBO Asrock 990FX Extreme 3
#GPU GTX580
#ESXi 5.1
I have managed to pass through the GPU it is listed as a divice in the pathtrough-screen. Also the audio chip which is on the card gots recognized. When I fired up the VM I was also able to install the drivers for the card. Everything looked ok, but when I try to open the Nvidia controllpanel it says that my gpu is not connected to any display. And when I look into the hardware manager there is a little callsign and an error code 43 saying that the device was shut down due to some problem. If I deactive the SVGA(the basic emulated card fom VMware) the callsign disappears, but instead of loading/binding my dedicated gpu to the system, esxi is just loading a worse driver version of SVGA called VGA(no shit sherlock 
) .
So here is the final question: Is there any chance of getting things to work and if so how? Maybe some of you guys have managed to get some cards to work so you get some decend performance to play games or render some 3D stuff. So maybe you also could tell me which cards were working.
Just for the sake of completeness I want to mention, that I've also tried to pass throug a ATI HD7870, but had also no luck even worse the card was recogniced as 'unknown device' and I wasnt even able to power up the VM.
Maybe some one can help me please 
your's Herb