Passing through a Nvidia GTX970 to a VMware Virtual machine

Create a virtual machine with EFI boot, install windows + tools and power down the VM

Open ssh to the host where the VM is registered to

use vim-cmd to look for the VM

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |   grep *name_of_VM* 

cd to the data store path

cd /vmfs/volumes/NVME/nvidia/

Edit the vmx file using the vi editor and add the below lines

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
pciHole.dynStart = "2816"

Save the editor and then reload the VMX (201 is the vmid from the above screenshot)

vim-cmd vmsvc/reload 201

Edit settings on the VM> add new hardware>pci device>add graphic card and its audio device(2 pci pass through device and set the memory reservation to maximum)

Take a snapshot and then power on the VM

Conform the hardware under graphic adapter followed by nvidia drivers installation.

Device manager

Note: The nvidia card and its audio device must already have been marked as under pci device as pass through!!