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ESXi 5.5 - should i enable vt-d?

Hi all,

I'm running ESXi 5.5 on a homelab.

- Lenovo T130
- Xeon 1225

I want to load a few VM's - maybe Server 2012 and a couple of Win 7 x64 machines and have a couple of questions:

1. Does anyone know how to inject the LAN drivers for this Lenovo
2. Should vt-d be enabled in general for ESXi?

Thanks in advance.
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8/22/2022 - Mon
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Hi,

this seems to suggest that it's an Intel Onboard 82579LM LAN:

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds032585
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