I’m playing with ESXi in a home lab environment – this is my first experiment with ESXi and I think I’m doing OK; I have some virtualisation experience with Hyper-V, but I’m still a novice home user! ESXi 6.7 Free is running from a USB on an AsRock H61M-DGS with 16GB RAM and a couple of 750GB hard drives on the motherboard, and a 500GB WD drive attached to a PCI-E Syba SI-PEX40064 SATA with a Marvell 88 SE 9215 chipset.
I’m basically trying to get passthrough working so that I can present direct disks to a couple of VMs (FreeNAS, Windows 10, a few others) for some testing, including to see if I can get the SMART data to pass through. I have one of the 750 disks as a traditional datastore with all the VMs, and its all been running really well until I tried to get the passthrough working!
I set a new Windows 10 VM up without passthrough, with VM tools installed, and all was working well. I physically installed the PCI-E SATA card and ESXi recognised it and installed the drivers – it seemed to be working OK. I then set the card to run as passthrough, and rebooted ESXi. All good so far:
I took a snapshot of the VM then went to VM hardware tab to add the card to the VM:
However, now it won’t boot. I can’t even get it to boot off install DVD into recovery mode! Nothing comes up on screen when I use the console, and the log has the following in it, but I have no idea where the error starts, and google has not been able to help me out:
2018-08-26T18:58:14.324Z| vcpu-0| I125: MemSched (MB): min: 9 sizeLimit: 1024 swapInitialFileSize: 110 prealloc: FALSE.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.324Z| vcpu-0| I125: MemSched (MB): min: 9 sizeLimit: 1024 swapInitialFileSize: 110 prealloc: FALSE.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.328Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: EFI ROM version: VMW71.00V.7581552.B64.1801142334 (64-bit RELEASE)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.413Z| vcpu-0| I125: BIOS-UUID is 56 4d 73 55 76 0f dc 19-84 ac 45 6f b6 65 7d db
2018-08-26T18:58:14.489Z| vcpu-0| I125: UHCI: HCReset
2018-08-26T18:58:14.522Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0x0) and 0xfb800000(0x0)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.523Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xfb800000(0xfb800000)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.563Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x2040
2018-08-26T18:58:14.563Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0x2040
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI: Tried to enable/disable IO space.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: PCIBridge4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:1: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:2: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:3: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.564Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge4:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: PCIBridge5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:1: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:2: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:3: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge5:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.565Z| vcpu-0| I125: PCIBridge6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:1: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:2: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:3: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge6:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: PCIBridge7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:1: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:2: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:3: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:4: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.566Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:5: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.567Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:6: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.567Z| vcpu-0| I125: pciBridge7:7: ISA/VGA decoding enabled (ctrl 001C)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.574Z| svga| I125: MKSScreenShotMgr: Taking a screenshot
2018-08-26T18:58:14.576Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x2040
2018-08-26T18:58:14.576Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xfb800000(0xfb800000)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.580Z| svga| I125: SVGA enabling SVGA
2018-08-26T18:58:14.582Z| svga| I125: SVGA-ScreenMgr: Screen type changed to RegisterMode
2018-08-26T18:58:14.734Z| vcpu-0| I125: Tools: Running status rpc handler: 0 => 1.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.734Z| vcpu-0| I125: Tools: Changing running status: 0 => 1.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.734Z| vcpu-0| I125: Tools: Removing Tools inactivity timer.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.842Z| svga| I125: MKSScreenShotMgr: Taking a screenshot
2018-08-26T18:58:14.854Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=db5d949d seq=8821: Receiving MKS.IssueTicket request.
2018-08-26T18:58:14.854Z| vmx| I125: SOCKET creating new socket listening on /var/run/vmware/ticket/6b98b0066629a08a
2018-08-26T18:58:14.854Z| vmx| I125: SOCKET 5 (108) creating new listening socket on port -1
2018-08-26T18:58:14.854Z| vmx| I125: Issuing new webmks ticket 6b98b0… (120 seconds)
2018-08-26T18:58:14.854Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=db5d949d seq=8821: Completed MKS request with messages.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: Accepting connection for webmks ticket 6b98b0…
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: Expiring webmks ticket 6b98b0…
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 6 (111) AsyncTCPSocketSetOption: Option layer/level [6], option/name [1]: successfully set OS option for TCP socket.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| W115: SOCKET 7 (111) unable to determine remote IP address
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 6 (111) AsyncTCPSocketSetOption: sendLowLatencyMode set to [1].
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: SOCKET 7 (111) Creating VNC remote connection.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.037Z| mks| I125: MKSControlMgr: New VNC connection 0
2018-08-26T18:58:15.038Z| svga| I125: VNCENCODE 7 VNCEncode: VNCEncode_ServerSetTopology – original root: (0, 0) size: (1024, 768)
2018-08-26T18:58:15.038Z| svga| I125: VNCENCODE 7 VNCEncode: Number of screens changed from 0 to 1
2018-08-26T18:58:15.038Z| svga| I125: VNCENCODE 7 VNCEncode: screen: 0 BoundingBox: (1024×768) Screen (1024×768) @ (0,0) bytesPerLine: 4096
2018-08-26T18:58:15.421Z| mks| W115: VNCENCODE 7 JPEG quality levels (min, mid, max). Input: (25, 35, 90) Clamped: (25, 35, 90)
2018-08-26T18:58:15.421Z| mks| W115: VNCENCODE 7 failed to allocate VNCBlitDetect
2018-08-26T18:58:15.421Z| mks| I125: VNCENCODE 7 VNCEncodeChooseRegionEncoder: region encoder adaptive. Screen 1/1 @ Resolution: 1024 x 768
2018-08-26T18:58:15.536Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM:HBA reset issued on sata0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.537Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:0: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.537Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:1: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.537Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:2: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.548Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:3: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.558Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:4: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.569Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:5: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.580Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:6: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.591Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:7: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.602Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:8: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.613Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:9: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.624Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:10: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.635Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:11: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.646Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:12: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.657Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:13: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.668Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:14: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.680Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:15: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.691Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:16: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.702Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:17: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.713Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:18: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.724Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:19: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.735Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:20: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.746Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:21: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.757Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:22: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.768Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:23: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.778Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:24: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.789Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:25: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.800Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:26: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.812Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:27: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.823Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:28: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.834Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM: sata0:29: PxSCTL.DET already 0. Ignoring write 0.
2018-08-26T18:58:15.890Z| vmx| I125: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 1024 768
2018-08-26T18:58:17.498Z| svga| I125: MKSScreenShotMgr: Taking a screenshot
2018-08-26T18:58:18.878Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: DSDT: CNOT method is 38 bytes long.
2018-08-26T18:58:18.980Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: About to do EFI boot: Windows Boot Manager
2018-08-26T18:58:19.014Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCIHandleFirstWrite: First write on sata0:1.fileName=’/vmfs/volumes/5aea2ac7-f8a56fc8-0045-d050994a8c62/Win 10/Win 10.vmdk’
2018-08-26T18:58:19.014Z| vcpu-0| I125: DDB: “longContentID” = “ecb91f0866d6fb3533d9ca95961368bd” (was “e1dca447b4f2ea5ec9ecc5a389dc3b1a”)
2018-08-26T18:58:19.213Z| vcpu-0| I125: DISKLIB-CHAIN : DiskChainUpdateContentID: old=0x89dc3b1a, new=0x961368bd (ecb91f0866d6fb3533d9ca95961368bd)
2018-08-26T18:58:26.119Z| vcpu-0| I125: UHCI: HCReset
2018-08-26T18:58:26.140Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: Firmware has transitioned to runtime.
2018-08-26T18:58:26.234Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest MSR write (0x48: 0x2)
2018-08-26T18:58:26.234Z| vcpu-0| I125: Preparing for SPEC_CTRL Guest MSR write (0x48) passthrough.
2018-08-26T18:58:26.235Z| vcpu-0| I125: APIC CMCI LVT write: 0x100d8
2018-08-26T18:58:27.028Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace at 0x2040
2018-08-26T18:58:27.028Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Unregistering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xfb800000(0xfb800000)
2018-08-26T18:58:27.029Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering IOSpace at 0x2040
2018-08-26T18:58:27.029Z| vcpu-0| I125: SVGA: Registering MemSpace at 0xf0000000(0xf0000000) and 0xfb800000(0xfb800000)
2018-08-26T18:58:28.517Z| vcpu-0| I125: AHCI-VMM:HBA reset issued on sata0.
2018-08-26T18:58:30.297Z| vcpu-0| E105: PANIC: VERIFY bora/devices/pcipassthru/pciPassthru.c:948
2018-08-26T18:58:33.104Z| vcpu-0| W115: A core file is available in “/vmfs/volumes/5aea2ac7-f8a56fc8-0045-d050994a8c62/Win 10/vmx-zdump.000”
2018-08-26T18:58:33.104Z| mks| W115: Panic in progress… ungrabbing
2018-08-26T18:58:33.104Z| mks| I125: MKS: Release starting (Panic)
2018-08-26T18:58:33.104Z| mks| I125: MKS: Release finished (Panic)
2018-08-26T18:58:33.152Z| vcpu-0| I125: Writing monitor file `vmmcores.gz`
2018-08-26T18:58:33.156Z| vcpu-0| W115: Dumping core for vcpu-0
2018-08-26T18:58:33.156Z| vcpu-0| I125: VMK Stack for vcpu 0 is at 0x451a0ba93000
2018-08-26T18:58:33.156Z| vcpu-0| I125: Beginning monitor coredump
2018-08-26T18:58:33.577Z| vcpu-0| I125: End monitor coredump
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Printing loaded objects
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5683D4000-0xC56953D044): /bin/vmx
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5A9B7C000-0xC5A9B82630): /lib64/librt.so.1
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5A9D84000-0xC5A9D85E90): /lib64/libdl.so.2
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5A9F88000-0xC5AA21D364): /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AA44F000-0xC5AA4B834C): /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.2
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AA6C3000-0xC5AA7D737C): /lib64/libX11.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AA9DD000-0xC5AA9EC01C): /lib64/libXext.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AABEE000-0xC5AACD2341): /lib64/libstdc++.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AAEF1000-0xC5AAFECB94): /lib64/libm.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AB1EE000-0xC5AB202BC4): /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AB405000-0xC5AB41C858): /lib64/libpthread.so.0
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AB622000-0xC5AB7C62E0): /lib64/libc.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC569959000-0xC5699789C0): /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AB9D0000-0xC5AB9EA634): /lib64/libxcb.so.1
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5ABBEC000-0xC5ABBED95C): /lib64/libXau.so.6
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5ABE50000-0xC5ABFFF284): /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/objLib/vsanObjBE.so
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AC2BF000-0xC5AC2D865C): /lib64/libz.so.1
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [0xC5AC722000-0xC5AC72D758): /lib64/libnss_files.so.2
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: End printing loaded objects
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace:
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[0] 000000c5ae64e450 rip=000000c568afcb47 rbx=000000c568afc640 rbp=000000c5ae64e470 r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000001 r14=0000000000000800 r15=0000000000000001
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[1] 000000c5ae64e480 rip=000000c5685af090 rbx=000000c5ae64e4a0 rbp=000000c5ae64e980 r12=000000c5698033f0 r13=0000000000000001 r14=0000000000000800 r15=0000000000000001
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[2] 000000c5ae64e990 rip=000000c5686db107 rbx=000000c569e06750 rbp=000000c5ae64ea10 r12=0000000000000005 r13=0000000000000005 r14=0000000000000800 r15=0000000000000001
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[3] 000000c5ae64ea20 rip=000000c5686db18f rbx=0000000000000006 rbp=000000c5ae64ea80 r12=0000000000000000 r13=000000c569e06828 r14=000000c569e06750 r15=000000c569e06810
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[4] 000000c5ae64ea90 rip=000000c5686dbc8c rbx=0000000000000002 rbp=000000c5ae64eae0 r12=000000c569e06750 r13=0000000000000001 r14=000000c5ae64eb0c r15=000000c569e06800
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[5] 000000c5ae64eaf0 rip=000000c5686d5f8c rbx=0000000000000031 rbp=000000c5ae64eb40 r12=0000000000300004 r13=000000c5ad250020 r14=0000000000000000 r15=000000c569e06f80
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[6] 000000c5ae64eb50 rip=000000c5689b2781 rbx=000000c5698fdea0 rbp=000000c5ae64eb80 r12=000000c56960d880 r13=0000000000000164 r14=000000c569c870b0 r15=0000000000000000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[7] 000000c5ae64eb90 rip=000000c5689d4216 rbx=000000000000012d rbp=000000c5ae64ebd0 r12=000000c5698033f0 r13=000000c5698f4fe0 r14=000000c5697cfd40 r15=0000000000000000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[8] 000000c5ae64ebe0 rip=000000c5689b2891 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=000000c5ae64ebf0 r12=000000c5ad2510e8 r13=000000c5ae64f9c0 r14=000000c569b79040 r15=0000000000000003
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[9] 000000c5ae64ec00 rip=000000c568a9dd17 rbx=000000c5ae64ec00 rbp=000000c5ae64ed20 r12=000000c569d5a1e0 r13=000000c5ae64f9c0 r14=000000c569b79040 r15=0000000000000003
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[10] 000000c5ae64ed30 rip=000000c5ab40d06b rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=0000032e27590b10 r13=000000c5ae64f9c0 r14=000000c569b79040 r15=0000000000000003
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[11] 000000c5ae64ee40 rip=000000c5ab70baed rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=0000032e27590b10 r13=000000c5ae64f9c0 r14=000000c569b79040 r15=0000000000000003
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Backtrace[12] 000000c5ae64ee48 rip=0000000000000000 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=0000032e27590b10 r13=000000c5ae64f9c0 r14=000000c569b79040 r15=0000000000000003
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[0] 000000c5ae64e450 rip=000000c568afcb47 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[1] 000000c5ae64e480 rip=000000c5685af090 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[2] 000000c5ae64e990 rip=000000c5686db107 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[3] 000000c5ae64ea20 rip=000000c5686db18f in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[4] 000000c5ae64ea90 rip=000000c5686dbc8c in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[5] 000000c5ae64eaf0 rip=000000c5686d5f8c in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[6] 000000c5ae64eb50 rip=000000c5689b2781 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[7] 000000c5ae64eb90 rip=000000c5689d4216 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[8] 000000c5ae64ebe0 rip=000000c5689b2891 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[9] 000000c5ae64ec00 rip=000000c568a9dd17 in function (null) in object /bin/vmx loaded at 000000c5683d4000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[10] 000000c5ae64ed30 rip=000000c5ab40d06b in function (null) in object /lib64/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 000000c5ab405000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[11] 000000c5ae64ee40 rip=000000c5ab70baed in function clone in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 000000c5ab622000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: SymBacktrace[12] 000000c5ae64ee48 rip=0000000000000000
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: Msg_Post: Error
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125+ VERIFY bora/devices/pcipassthru/pciPassthru.c:948
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [msg.panic.haveLog] A log file is available in “/vmfs/volumes/5aea2ac7-f8a56fc8-0045-d050994a8c62/Win 10/vmware.log”.
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [msg.panic.requestSupport.withoutLog] You can request support.
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [msg.panic.requestSupport.vmSupport.vmx86]
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125+ To collect data to submit to VMware technical support, run “vm-support”.
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: [msg.panic.response] We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
2018-08-26T18:58:34.317Z| vcpu-0| I125: —————————————-
2018-08-26T18:58:34.319Z| vcpu-0| I125: Exiting
So – can anyone help identify why this card is not working in passthrough mode and is preventing my VM from booting?! TIA.