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Is there a way to utilize PCI Passthrough so I can use my HDMI output on a guest Windows 7 VM? &nbsp;Will this require two graphics cards? &nbsp;One for my ESXi local console screen to output on and the other to be used in the guest VM as described above?
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Is there a way to utilize PCI Passthrough so I can use my HDMI output on a guest Windows 7 VM?  Will this require two graphics cards?  One for my ESXi local console screen to output on and the other to be used in the guest VM as described above?

PCI passthrough HDMI ESXi v5.1

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.