I'm a long time VMware (ESX) user, but new to the forums. I just picked up this thread yesterday when I tried to install a PCIe USB 3 card (NEC chipset) for passthrough to a VM. On 5.1 build 799733, it didn't work (add card for passthrough, reboot, and it's disappeared from the list of passthrough devices), and so I upgraded to the latest build to discover I'd skipped the version that works! D'oh!
I've never had 5.0 on this host, nor the build number of 5.1 that works, but can I perform an 'upgrade' on my host to 'upgrade' it to a working build, either the latest 5.0, or 5.1 build 102xxxx?
I, like many others here, need to get this working for efficient swapping of USB 3 disks for backup purposes. I don't want the hassle of mounting/unmounting/adding/readding USB devices through the VM every week to swap my backup targets over.
