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trunolimit
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎03-26-2015 03:03 PM

USB to HDMI passthrough

I have been unsuccessful at passing through my radeon   6450 using ESXi 5.5. I am giving up and wanted to know if anyone had been successful with a USB to HDMI solution?

IE http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Graphics-2560x1440-1920x1200-DisplayLink/dp/B007L6NYAO/ref=sr_1_13?s=...

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DavoudTeimouri
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Virtuoso
‎03-27-2015 05:17 AM

This is depended to your motherboard compatibility with ESXi.

You can check it on this link:VMware Compatibility Guide: System Search

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trunolimit
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Enthusiast
‎03-27-2015 04:35 PM

Well from my understanding in order to make it on that list it cost OEMs big bucks.

Obviously there is some what of a market for Virtualizing in the home. Why doesn't VMware make a home virtual server solution?

Anyway most of these USB to HDMI adapters use what's called a Displaylink chip. Displaylink themselves claim that they are not compatible with Virtualized solutions because their software depends on Nvidia GPU.

KB306: DisplayLink support for Virtual machines eg VMWare or parallels

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