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Ah, little detail I missed. Oh well, let's hope it will be released and pulled into unraid in some near-ish future. Would be one less thing to duplicate when you want / need to run 2 VMs with real hardware.

Not sure if that was posted already but take a look here: http://vfio.blogspot.com/2016/07/intel-graphics-assignment.html If I'm reading it right but iGPU pass-through seems to be possible. Also "I've been told this works with Skylake" makes me kind of happy since I have i7-6700K and it would be nice to be able to put that iGPU to some work more serious than just showing webui from time to time. So should it work on current unRaid version (I run 6.2.0.rc2) or that article is only applicable for "normal" linux systems?

First of all OP big thanks for this guide. And also thanks to saarg for his "easy mode" with <hostdev> Now I have my usb hub (http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-4761_UH700.html) inside my Win10 VM and everything I plug in it gets detected right away. Webcam, dvd drive, pendrives, my Windows Phone. Life is good right now Of course there was a bit of WTF when I did all the steps to get correct bus slot and function and VM screamed at me with big error that there is no such device Fortunately for everybody I stopped myself from throwing my laptop out of window and kept browsing rest of the thread. After few minutes I had a hint of solution and it worked so here it is: By using lsusb command I established that I want to pass bus 003 through (that is the only bus that has no other usb stuff connected like unRaid pendrive or my logitech receivers for mouse & keyboard). So next I did readlink command readlink /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3 And got this in response: ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:03:00.0/usb3 And here is where my confusion came from. After reading OP's guide I thought that hostdev should have address defined like this <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x1c' function='0x0'/> using this part of readlink info ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:03:00.0/usb3 But this caused big scary error to appear when I started VM. Correct way is to use numbers from last but one part of usb3 "path" returned by readlink: ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:03:00.0/usb3 <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> After this was done VM started up normally, Win10 detected my webcam and all other connected devices and hot plugging works perfectly.

Ok guys, passthrough works fine for my onboard audio. I just had to pay more attention to what I read on forums and what my webGUI shows me. I don't say it couldn't be more user friendly but now that I know what had to be done it's easy enough. First of all when I enabled ACS override in VM Manager it said that reboot is required for change to take effect. So I stopped array and rebooted system. What I didn't notice was that this setting wasn't really applied. After my last response I went into VM manager again just to double check and low and behold that yellow-ish warning was still there. After 3rd reboot I realized something is not working as it should here so I searched this issue. Apparently solution is to add manually some magic commands to syslinux config: After this change and reboot warning in VM manager went away so I added my onboard audio as secondary sound card to my Win10 VM and started it up. First moments were little dissapointing: windows logo showed up, then login screen, then... darkness. Ok, so now even no picture! Great! Log showed familiar errors about reset. I decided to make some green&orange tee and write another flame post about how shitty this whole thing was. When I got back few minutes later I saw Win10 desktop and some new icons in notification tray. 2 icons of speakers! 2 icons of speakers without red cross on them which meant - oh god, can it be true? - Win10 VM was detecting my headphones in my front panel? Quick run to youtube, first video and YES! the sound of some lame song that apparently is popular now blasted from my headphones. Installed skype and called test service to check if mic works too. It did. So now all that is left is to pass my whole usb hub that I use to connect pendrives, phones, webcam and dvd burner (yep I got usb one to free one sata port on my mobo for additional hdd). Final notes: - OVMF BIOS doesn't work for me. VM doesn't even blink its initial boot message, it just hangs until gets killed. So I have to use SeaBIOS. - machine i440fx-2.5 is fine - I had to enable ACS override in syslinux config, webGUI didn't work for some reason (beta 21 so maybe just some minor bug?) So, I will mark this as solved, maybe it will help some other poor guy who is not seeing things everybody seems to see. And to all guys who took a moment to respond to my posts big thank you for not leaving me alone even when I was snarky and whiny. I hope unraid will only get better and all those newbie traps will get fixed, improved, explained, described. Now I am again full of hope for nicely separating my work stuff from my play stuff and maybe finally getting that NAS and media streaming going on.

Yep, I tried that too without any luck. But will give it another try because maybe I didn't do it correctly. Also not much else I can do right now, it's almost midnight and shops with electronics are closed so I can't go and impulse buy usb sound card to pass it through

That's something that gives hope. On the other hand my "newest" chipset is already like a year old, both Skylake and Z170 are not so fresh anymore so one can only wonder what praised and proud linux community who always bolsters "thousands of improvements by millions of volunteers within mere minutes from detection" is doing? C'mon guys, prove me wrong

Thanks for your input, buying more stuff is always a possibility. I only wonder if with my luck this also won't turn up to be another 'nope' moment. Is really passthrough for onboard sound chip so crazy to implement? I don't thing those chips are so much different and Asus is not some kind of ghetto manufacturer so I can't stop to ask same question: why something so common and basic is so hard to do while you are able to passthrough whole frikking GPU which I bet is much more complex than audio IO?

That's the thing: I can see my onboard sound card in combo box but when I select it (either as the only one or as secondary to GPU's audio) my VM reports errors in log and becomes unusable (freezes, VM can't be stopped / forced stopped, host is hanging, only way to get control back is hard reset of the whole box). Error from log is like this: 2016-04-29T11:08:33.698007Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio: Cannot reset device 0000:00:1f.3, no available reset mechanism. This device is my onboard sound card (same number is showing up in webGUI when setting up VM). I already tried both types of VM BIOS (SeaBIOS and OMVF) and there's the same issue everytime. I didn't even got into trying to install drivers for my onboard audio in VM because of freezing / hanging problems I mentioned above. My idea was to setup 2 main VMs, one for work (software development stuff + skype for work calls) and one for fun (games, movies, music, skype with friends, general relax time stuff) and maybe few other "background" VMs with sql / exchange / domino servers for "work lab environment" (those obviously wouldn't need passthrough GPU nor audio, just remote desktop for administration / maintenance stuff). But now my plan is getting more and more unrealistic since I can't get past that simple thing with audio.

Because I don't use hdmi with any of my 2 monitors (ROG SWIFT PG279Q - display port only, Dell U2412M - DVI only). And isn't hdmi audio output only anyway? How can you use skype without input? Yeah, how do you skype in unraid windows VMs world?

I won't hide that I came to unraid lured by Linus' videos featuring unraid capabilities of virtualizing Windows machines on top of NAS, PLEX, whatever. Now when I tried few things I can see that either: - it's same kind of bullshit as with any other linux I ever tried (it works for people who spent a year fiddling with config files and hacking binaries and whatever) - my hardware is so weird unraid is not able to deal with it (yeah right, i7-6700k + Asus Z170-A + MSI GTX780 this is really exotic combo nowadays) My main issue is as I stated in subject: how can you advertise unraid as a platform for hosting "gaming rig" quality VMs when something so basic as onboard audio is a total showstopper? I watched jonp giving interviews saying with straight face you can run your gaming rig on top of you NAS and entertainment server and dockers and whatnot. So what kind of gaming rig doesn't use sound card? In times of twitch, teamspeak, MMOs, youtube, etc. how can you do gaming rig without playing AND recording sound? Thing that onboard sound chip is totally capable of doing without need for external devices like usb or pci cards. So am I missing something here or it's just simple case of "well, sucks to be you, it works for us. bye"? Sorry for being jaded but I really hoped unraid will be a solution for my work and leasure IT related needs. And now it seems it's just another pipe dream.