Hi, I would really appreciate some help here.
I just purchased an Renesas µPD720201 USB 3.0 Controller PCI-e card for my home lab running ESXi 6.7u3. However, I am not able to enable the PCI passthrough for this card. I tried in both ESXi and in vcenter. For example in ESXi, I checked this device, and clicked "toggle passthrough", it then shows "enabled/needs reboot". But after I reboot the ESXi, it is still showing disabled. Same thing happened when trying to enable this in vCenter.
My home lab system:
Asrock H87M Pro4. Currently have a LSI SAS 9707-8i pci-e card and a SIL3114 SATA PCI card passed through to two different VMs. Was hoping to passthrough the µPD720201 USB controller to a windows server vm. But the problem here is the passthrough can't even be enabled.
lspci output:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller [PCIe RP[0000:00:01.0]]
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
0000:00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI [vmhba32]
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
0000:00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-V [vmnic0]
0000:00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.0]]
0000:00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.3]]
0000:00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.4]]
0000:00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H87 Express LPC Controller
0000:00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point AHCI Controller [vmhba0]
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
0000:01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Avago (LSI Logic) Avago (LSI) Logic Fusion-MPT 6GSAS SAS2308_2 PCI-Express [vmhba1]
0000:03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge
0000:04:01.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller [vmhba2]
0000:05:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller
cat /dev/usbdevices:
.....lines.omitted... I guess the following is related:
T: Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=5000 MxCh= 8
V: Not available for Passthrough
B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 3.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=03 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0e0f ProdID=8003 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=0x1912
S: Product=XHCI root HUB
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=uhub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Intr) MxPS= 2 Ivl=0ms
Thanks in advance!
Kevin