TBS-6982 DVB-S2 card under ESXi

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This might prove useful to someone.

I've acquired a working TBS-6982 DVB-S2 card (after much shouting to the manufacturer about how the original didn't work - but that's another story) and attempted to get it working under VMware ESXi. I passed it through to my test NextPVR server virtual machine, which recognised it, loaded the drivers - and then couldn't do anything with it. Basically, it didn't acquire satellites. Shame, as I was hoping to leave it plugged into my always-on NAS but the fallback position is to plug it into my PVR v2.

So I then plugged it into an ASRock mini-ITX motherboard (which will form the heart of my next PVR) and it just worked fine with NextPVR, channels acquired, playing HD video, the lot.

Moral of the story? It doesn't work in a VMware VM. I hope that's useful for someone...