charleslam

i have 3 usb controllers. got usb pass through working on the intel usb controller. the 2 asmedia usb controllers refuse to pass through and give this error. fun.

if i try that and it doesnt work, i guess i will be getting in touch with their customer support to get a refund.

I can relate to the anger. im having a tough time myself. usb headsets do not play well either with unraid.

now i ran into another issue. thought it was this flakey evga board so i swapped it with a known working asus p9x79. nope. still silent on the USB headsets. so its running great, if i dont need sound. which is kind of a bummer. on a good note, unlike the evga x79 ftw, this one flat out says there is a total of 3 usb controllers on board. so i will try to make the task of getting that sorted out and dedicating each controller to a VM. i was hoping not to do that, but as i can see, there really isnt a lot of buzz here in terms of people trying to help. and it is at least something to try, even if it doesnt seem like it will fix the issue. I am half tempted to make an appointment just to watch someone squirm over this problem.

well thats a fun tangent. were you able to see private messages as well? had 3 of them up from people in that chat at that time where i was told what i was. but maybe you saw something that i might have missed. Or maybe i misunderstood someone. as for an update though I stopped troubleshooting it as i would get windows fully updated and then it would blank screen on any VM i set up. i narrowed it down to the 2nd set of windows updates i would perform (2nd batch of 80+ updates). I assumed it was with the computer's sleep function. but it wasnt. i double checked at the time, and the power settings were set to always be on. this would happen with 7 and 8.1 VM's at the time. It would fully boot windows and then blank screen upon going to desktop after that 2nd batch of updates. it became a failure living in my closet for 6-8 months. It wasnt worth my time and the GF wanted her kitchen table back. Tried tinkering with it again 2 weeks ago. to my surprise windows 7 & 8.1 VM's no longer have that issue with this latest release. good on whoever fixed that problem. USB headset sound is still hit or miss with driver support. One HP headset didnt work with windows 7. install windows 8.1, sound magically starts working. im uncertain if this is a driver issue or an unraid issue. as far as i can tell it is using identical usb driver files to that of the VM's that arent working with sound (OVLeng Q5 and logitech h390). Something odd happened on my VM, a lenovo m600 mouse would install but not work either. i decided i was done mucking with it and switch my trusty logitech proteus core. added the usb device to the profile and ran it. the logitech mouse was not responsive. but all of a sudden my m600 mouse started working. removed the logitech mouse, m600 stayed working. not sure what happened there but worth noting. Got gpu passthrough working on my system so i dont need the usb vga dongle. And before someone suggests dedicating a USB controller to the VM, are we even sure what the problem is here? no not really. and yes these problem headsets do work on a windows 8.1 computer. here's what i dont understand, why is it being detected and have drivers install, state the driver is working correctly, but then not emit sound? and for what its worth, it was working on 2 VM's simultaneously before i broke my unbranded cheap chinese headset RIP. I believe its a driver issue with generic PNP headsets. but i dont know for certain. I'd rather not purchase more usb controllers if i can possibly avoid it. I've already invested alot into this and finding it to be a never ending pit. it seems researching this topic is left with alot of "IDK" "use a separate controller" "try the MSI hotfix"(which afaik is only applicable to nvidia sound through hdmi or the like with GPU sound) Attached is my diagnostics, and system log. tower-diagnostics-20170930-1211.zip tower-syslog-20170930-1213.zip

i am running into stability issues. i believe it might be with hyperthreading being enabled. im curious if i should disable it, or if i should find out the pairings. obviously the latter seems a tad more complicated.

yeah the ghosting went away when i stopped booting unraid into GUI mode. now it runs headless and doesnt effect the VM.

it might be an issue with the driver itself. after further digging on my situation, i found that the generic microsoft headset driver may not work correctly.

passing through a usb controller doesnt seem like a fix to me. on a single machine with a single VM thats feasible, and probably preferable as then you can unplug and plug at a whim. but that solution doesnt work well with a multiple VM environment. i have run into this issue as well except with mine i dont get audio whatsoever. i have 3 headsets for 3 separate VM's and only one emits sound. ironically its the cheapest unbranded chinese one that works. the HP headset and OVleng headset are installed with the microsoft drivers, but silent. microsoft shows sound being output to it, but nothing.

no i didnt. it is working without stubbing.

just retried it a couple more times. seems its a luck of the draw if systeminfo from 3dmark causes a VM crash or not.

well it appears to be working correctly. once i set up automatic VM startup the artifacting of the GUI is gone. now the weird thing im running into is benchmarking. im trying to run 3d mark on both VM's. it appears that either 1 or the other fails upon starting up of 3dmark. any advice on that?

well just for grins and giggles i thought i would try just choosing the videocard on a new VM and starting it up. its working-ish. it still shows remnants of the GUI. its really weird. i see the boot time in the upper right and that the array is started in the lower left. but everything else is what is viewed from the VM.

so i follow the exact same steps as the nvidia cards tutorial? because there surely has to be something different about setting up AMD/ATI graphics cards vs. nvidia's.

Tried countless times about 7-8 months ago where i was running into an issue with windows updates completely ruining windows 7 and 8.1 VM's. eventually i gave up on it. figured i'd give it another go after the software had more time to mature. i have run into less errors and less problems this time around. whichever dev. fixed this issue, i salute you good sir. Regardless, ive run into problems with real estate on my current motherboard. I am running: E5-2640V2 EVGA x79 FTW 16gb (4x4gb) Gskill Ram 3xr9 270x anker external powered usb hub Now i have been watching youtubes/reading about GPU passthrough. and i have been reading in the forums that people have done this with Nvidia GPU's and it automatically starts into a VM and you access the unraid config through a web browser of that VM. I have also read that AMD gpu's do not have the same problems that the nvidia's do. is there a better tutorial than what that space invader dude has? any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles Lam

let me be more specific. when i stated the irc chat, i was referring to the official unraid chat room on freenode. So you can see why i can be upset. Regardless, i appreciate the quick response. and i will try to keep my questions strictly on the forums moving forward.

currently i have an evga x79 ftw with an 8c/16t xeon. the initial plan was to use 3x r9 270x's in it for effectively 3 vm's. unfortunately due to motherboard real estate i realize this is not going to happen and unraid will not even detect my usb to vga adapter. i found this out after being told via the irc chat that i should be able to do this, but after digging around these forums, i am finding that to be false. which is frustrating, as i had to invest money into this home project. already i am not feeling welcome into this community. but i understand people make mistakes, so i'll try to not be hypersensitive over this individual. regardless, i purchased for this project 3 usb headsets. 1 Ovleng headset doesnt even get detected with unraid. so idk what the problem is with that. the other 2 (an HP and a random chinese one) are detected and have been assigned to the appropriate VM's. driver installation is successful and the OS shows that sound should be going through them. with max volume, not a peep. I have tested both on my windows 8.1 computer and they work fine. it just does not work on the unraid VM's. I am at a loss as what im supposed to do on this, as far as i can tell they should be working without issue. Creating the VM's was a pain as my installation media for windows 8.1 would not work with the windows 8.1 template. i had to use the windows 7 template for the OS to install. I was searching around the internet only to find one other person having this issue, which did not ever find a solution. *side note* I have had much difficulty with these VM's when they go into sleep mode. they refuse to come out of sleep. forcing me to do a force stop and start, essentially killing one of my VM's in the process. very frustrating. *another side note* im noticing missing drivers for 2 devices in my device manager. a pci controller, and a pci device. these are not for the USB headset as it already shows up separately in the VM. Any help is appreciated and attached is the VM xml config text. if you need more information, let me know. Thanks, Charles Lam VM XML Configs.txt