I believe you can just plug into the video output on the Quadro and skip the zero client, but it's a lot of money for disappointing gaming performance.
Quadro cards are not well suited for playing games, so even if you spend $1000+ on a nice Quadro, the fps is probably going to be disappointing considering the amount of money it costs. The issues are two-fold: you have to spend a lot more money on a Quadro/AMD equivalent (FirePro, Radeon Pro?). There's not a significant benefit to using Horizon if you want a single VM with a single GPU passed through, unless you specifically want zero client/remote access. I'm assuming you want to use thin/zero clients, otherwise just find a consumer GPU that will passthrough successfully and skip using Horizon. If you're really looking to play games using Horizon, it's not going to be cheap. This might leave AMD's offerings I assume - have they been used on ESX/Horizon (PCoIP) with acceptable 3D performance? will work (negates most of the consumer Nvidia cards I assume from my 1080 experience) will provide enough performance to play at Full HD (might negate all the cheaper quadro models +Grid)Ģ. So I am looking for alternatives/recommendations whichġ. but tried most of the rest.Įdit: Just realized its the 43 error - so will dig around some more any play with the options I have not tried modifying /etc/vmware/esx.conf to be honest, might give that a try if it is really expected to help.
I got so far that it installed drivers ok but the card always had exclamation mark in device manager, nothing i did has helped. I tried passing a GTX 1080 through but little success so am considering getting some other hopefully cheap hardware for this and leave the GTX 1080 for heavy gaming or sell it off. I am looking for a gaming solution for Horizon view - just for me so dedicated passthrough is ok. And remembered I have an older 7970 somewhere to test this out