ESXi onboard SATA passthrough [on hold]

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Published on 2014-08-18T14:47:29Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 16:29 UTC
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I am running ESXi 5.5 on a home system. When I attempt to pass one of the onboard SATA controllers (Intel ICH10R) to a VM, it is successful. However, the controller never appears in the VM. What else am I missing that would cause a VM to not recognize the controller?

Additional Info:

  • The controller is set to AHCI mode in the BIOS
  • Prior to setting up the controller for passthrough, ESXi did recognize the controller and the drives
  • I have tried with multiple VMs, none of which recognized the controller or the attached drives
  • I have two onboard SATA controllers, on controller for ESXi and one for passthrough
  • The final ideal state is that I could passthrough the controller to a FreeNAS VM

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