Does hailo-8 work under VMWare ESXI?

Has anyone successfully used the Hailo-8 accelerator with VMware ESXi 8.0U2? I’m encountering issues when passing it through to a Virtual Machine (VM) using PCI pass-through. VMs fail to start when the Hailo-8 is attached. Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

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I’m experiencing the same issue on my platform

yes there is a way to do this.

you have to add the following prompt

1e60 2864 bridge false

to the top of

/etc/vmware/passthru.map

now reboot the host and you could create and launch VM with hailo8 attached and could enumerate the device successfully