I have a USB stick that I created for booting and installing OS 10.8.2 directly from the USB stick. Later, I'm hoping to enable video for Direct Path to use this system not just as a headless ESXi server but also as a OS X desktop.
#Esxi late 2012 mac mini install#
I have now added these three controllers to the newly created OS X VM, so once I install OS X (10.8.2) Mountain Lion in this VM, I'm hoping to get audio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Firewire directly passed to the Mountain Lion VM.
I have enabled the following devices for Direct Path (pass through):Ġ0:1b.0 | Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio ControllerĠ2:00.0 | Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/nĠ3:00.0 | Agere Systems FW643 PCIExpress1349b Controller (PHY/Link)Īfter enabling these devices for Direct Path, I rebooted the Mac Mini, and ESXi came back up fine with all of my VMs auto-starting correctly. I'm trying to load OS X in VM under ESXi 5.1 on 2012 Mac Mini 2.6 GHz 16 GB RAM. That seems to be fixed now: whenever I press the Alt key at the powerup chime, I get the Apple "boot menu", even with our KVM switch in between. PS2: on the earlies models we had the problem, that the Alt key wasn't recognized after powering on, when there is an USB hub between the keyboard and the Mac (a KVM switch for example).
PS1: I was unable to boot the ESXi setup from USB key! Since other USB keys (OsX setup for example) didn't work either, I suspect that there's some EFI boot problem from the new USB3 ports. It is the regular MacMini with an i7 4C 2.3GHz and one 1TB SATA drive ( with no extras), not the MacMini Server. I tried instalkling 5.0 and 5.0 U1 also, but with the same result. I bought one of the new MacMinis, which were presented yesteraday, plugged two 8GiB DD3-1600 modules in (OsX reported 16GiB of memory, as the models before) and tried to install ESXi 5.1 Build 799733.