Here is my setup and scenario I am facing:
I am running ESXI 5.0 on a single host with a single Win7 64bit VM (Testing/POC). We are trying to prove that it is possible to virtualize engineering workstations using GPU passthrough.
So, I successfully configured the NVIDIA Quatro 2000 GPU to passthrough to the VM. The latest NVIDIA driver is installed and recognizes the Quatro 2000 card. However, I can not seem to make the VM use the 2000 card as the default video adapter, it always defaults to the VMware VGA adapter. I have followed the advise in this thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/1850334?tstart=0 by delaying the VMTools service with a dependancy with zero result.
Here is the strange part of the situation though. I happen to have a physical monitor plugged into the host from initial setup of ESXi, and when i turn the VM on from inside the VI client it displays on this phyisical monitor while having a halfway extended desktop on the VI client console. As soon as you unplug the physical monitor from the host it reverts back to the VMware defualt video adapter.
I don't understand how to make the VM defaut to the passthrough NVIDIA Quatro 2000 card. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.