ESXi 5 for mini-itx Z68 or Q67?

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Hey,

I was wondering if anyone got a mini-itx mobo that is either a Q67 or a Z68 chipset that got VT-d working with everything else onboard(ethernet, sata controller, etc)?
I was thinking of getting the Q67 BOXDQ67EPB3 mobo(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... OXDQ67EPB3) but the Max TDP is 65W.... so I would need to get a S series CPU.

However, I did noticed that there are Z68 mini-itx mobos, does anyone know if they would work out of the box? I listed 2 products below:
asrock (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813157268) and zotac (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813500069)
 
I have that exact Q67 board with a 2100T. It is able to do a passthrough for VT-d, but I couldn't actually use the mobo with ESXi because its onboard 82579 controller is not supported by esxi yet. It has morphed into my main workstation machine so far. In terms of use, I must say the thing is amazing - 2 cores (4 threads), 50W at maximum load, about as big as an external drive. With 8GB memory, I can easily run 4 VMs simultaneously along with the host operating system. Crazy.

BTW, your links don't work.
 
Ok troll here.

But I thought I would pipe in here. I just bought the BOXDQ67EPB3 board and paired it with a i5-2400. Everything works great, except the nic. However, you can get drivers from Chilly and customize your own oem.tgz for the nic to work.

Here is the link:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1607992

As far as I can tell this works only with esxi 4.1 and below.

At any rate, the board is great, it gives me chocolate cake. I'm running 4 servers off it right now, 3 linux and 1 windows 2008. I'm still looking for a cheap pci-x nic card to have one more port, but until then I'm really happy with it.
 
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