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> Drawbacks that I have encountered and anyone trying this should be aware of include:<br>
> 1. If using Vmware ESXi, make sure you use 5.0 (with updates) unless new patches to 5.1 fixes usb and pci passthrough<br>
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<p dir="ltr">This is what I'm working on now. I've been trying to pass through some DVB-T PCI cards on XenServer which hadn't worked. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So I installed ESXi 5.1 and have found that the cards seem to be passed through properly. Haven't finished yet so can't be 100℅ sure, but they've appeared in tuner card setup screen and appear to have been detected properly so at this stage I'm quite optimistic.</p>