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1. RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM INSTALL
2. RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM DRIVERS
3. RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM UPDATE
4. RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM PRO

Passthrough Onboard Realtek ALC889 sound chip.ġ) Sound working (headphone plugged into rear green 3.5mm jack) displayed through console.Ģ) Sound working (speaker attached to Windows 7 workstation) displayed through Remote Desktop Connection. If it doesn't work, I might give up on using the ESXi/OSX server as a workstation and just use it for transcoding existing video with handbrake or other CPU/memory intensive work where I don't need sound.ĮSXi 5.1 on Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H-B3 current EFI Firmware. I think that this will be my last attempt. I'll report back when I receive the card and have time to test it.

RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM DRIVERS

It is a bit pricey, but has native Mountain Lion drivers supported by the manufacturer. I have now ordered a Maya 44 XTe PCI Express Audio Interface to see if I can passthrough that better (as I was able to passthrough the Radeon PCI Express card). I could select it, but when I rebooted the ESXi host, I couldn't get Mountain Lion to boot. I couldn't get the PCI card to passthrough. I then bought the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which is a PCI card with older, but supposedly native drivers for OSX.

I couldn't get that to work either - The guest OSX didn't detect it. I then tried to add the USB sound dongle as a virtual USB device. The USB dongle works natively on my Macbook, without needing drivers, but there is a bug in ESXi5.1 that allows you to passthrough the USB hardware, but after rebooting the host server to enable it, the USB device disappears. I tried to passthrough the USB hardware and use a USB dongle for sound. I installed Soundflower via a screen capture app which gave me some sound (albeit choppy for some reason - maybe as it was in software?) so I started to look for hardware solutions. Well, sound is a work in progress, and I still don't have it sorted out yet. Would you care to reveal your secret on that?

I could not find any hint as to how you got sound to work? Edited Apby ErmaCįirst thanks for the detailed post and of course your research to get things to work. I also need to do some experimentation to see how well video editing and audio work, but at least now I can run programs that need video acceleration. I still haven't found a way to disable the VMware display, so I sort of get two of them, which I don't really want.

RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM PRO

I am using screen sharing from my Macbook Pro (also running Mountain Lion) to control the mouse and keyboard. So after booting up, I was able to get all 16 virtual cores running, run Final Cut which didn't run before, and see the ATI card in system info: So to fix that I just clicked on the GPU PCI card that I added and clicked the option to "make reserved memory equal" for the OSX guest. Invalid memory setting: memory reservation () should be equal to memsize(xxxxx). I then had some errors when starting up the guest when I boosted the memory from 2GB to 16GB:Īn error occurred while parsing scheduler-specific configuration parameters. To allow the OSX guest to more memory, you need to adjust some settings on the host: You then can add the GPU to the OSX guest using the "Add PCI device" option. Then you have to reboot your ESXi host for passthrough to take effect.

RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM INSTALL

I found a Radeon HD6570 for about £40 and set up GPU passthrough in ESXi (I forgot to say that I did install Mountain Lion first without the Radeon card - I don't know if that would make any difference).įrom your host, select the configuration tab, then "Advanced Settings", then "Edit", and select the ATI card. So I returned the nvidia and spent time researching AMD Radeon cards here: I originally bought a nvidia GT 640, as it looked to be quite compatible with Mountain Lion, but in the end I found out that ESXi passthrough with nvidia cards did not work too well: I spent a lot of time looking at these sites and searching with Google to find the most inexpensive and compatible out of box video card for Mountain Lion:

RECOMMEND RAM FOR OS X VM UPDATE

OK, here is an update of the progress that I've made so far with installing Mountain Lion on my ESXi 5.1 box with GPU passthrough for accelerated graphics.