No, I already set the host console vga driver to not be used by setting only to display the desktop on monitor 2. What I am reffering to is the physical card. You are correct about the message. When I tried assigning the only card in the system at the time (the 5870), ESXi would boot up and I would see the last message show as "cnic_register loaded successfully". IIRC it did not finish loading though. Again IIRC it seemed that the host stopped at that point and I could not connect to it. I will try again tonight or tommorow.
If it works, I can then merge my existing server and gaming tower together until I get some more coin saved to get a new x79 mobo and core i7 with ECC ram together. I can't ditch ZFS and Windows filesystems don't do what I want nor does a raid array under Windows. So now I will have a super fast and resiliant filesystem backing my VM's and providing storage to my lan while still able to manage from a Windows machine and game with!
Is it common for the VM's not to be able to sleep with an assigned VGA card? I guess I should just let the VM run all the time? Not a big deal I guess since the server will still be on anyways.
Thanks all and thanks VMware! I did not want to try and learn/setup Xen under Fedora or something like SmartOS and make its management my 2nd job. ESXi is so easy and great to use!