![]() ![]() If you are using an older version of vSphere or earlier VM Compatibility, the legacy Direct Path I/O should still work. Ensure that the VM is configured with vSphere 7 Compatibility (aka vHW 17) which is required to use the new Dynamic Direct Path I/O feature. Step 3 - Create a new VM, I used Windows 10 64-bit for my OS. Step 2 - Navigate to Configure->Hardware->Graphics->Host Graphics and change the default graphics type to " Shared Direct" If you are using vSphere 7, you can now take advantage of the new "Hardware Label" feature which is available of the new Assignable Hardware capability. I had to login to the ESXi Embedded Host Client.Īfter it was enabled, I then logged into vCenter Server to enable the iGPU for passthrough as the changes were not picked up. When I had initially attempted this using the vSphere UI within vCenter Server, I was not able to toggle it. These instructions should also be applicable for other NUC models and earlier versions of vSphere including details around passthrough configuration persistency which I know some folks have ran into which I was able to figure out as part of this experiment. Seems like this would be great for ESXi + Plex hardware transcodingīelow are the instructions I used to enable iGPU passthrough on an Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon) with vSphere 7.0. I’ve been doing this forever, when I need to crack passwords but don’t need the full 7 gpu rig - all Supermicro and 1080ti GPUs these days So for specefic workloads the nuc is suddently a lot more capable than before. Hw transcoding went up a factor of almost x 20. It was one of our collegaues that pointet me to it. ![]() After sharing the news on Twitter, I came to learn from the community that not only is this desirable for various use cases but some folks have also been doing this for some time now and have shared some the benefits it brings for certain types of workloads.Ĭan’t take credit. To be honest, I never thought about trying this out with a standard NUC as I figured the iGPU may not be powerful enough or warrant any interests. The trick looks to be enabling passthrough using ESXi Embedded Host Client UI & then you can assign it using vSphere UI #Homelab /NwuxbXwUMj Neat! Just found out you can actually passthrough the iGPU of standard Intel NUC. Earlier this week I found out that it was possible to passthrough the Integrated GPU (iGPU) for standard Intel NUC which was motivated by a question I had saw on the VMware Subreddit. I have written about iGPU passthrough for Intel NUCs before but only for the higher end models which were the Hades Canyon NUC at the time. ![]()
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