bergePanzer581

Hello all. So I've been having issues with a Windows VM of mine. My setup is primarily a gaming rig, with the array as secondary. I have onboard realtek audio on the motherboard passed through, had a discrete PCIe Creative SoundBlaster Z soundcard passed through, and now have purchased a USB SoundBlaster X3 connected to a passed through PCIe 1x USB 3.0 card. The issue. Audio pops and clicks. With, and without MSI interrupts enabled using the SpaceInvader application for all audio based devices. It happens regardless of drivers, settings, stream qualities, direct modes using Creative's software, etc. I've tried everything to fix this, including spending $150 on this USB soundcard that is attached to a USB add in to avoid the possibility of issues passing through like other external devices. I'm at my wits end with this. NONE of these problems exist if I boot windows natively. I've got all the cpu cores of the VM isolated from UNRAID to avoid any kind of issues I've also read about. What is going on here?? I've seen reddit posts about this, and very old posts on these forums-- but alas a generic 'fix', doesn't seem to exist. I'm desperate here. I was hoping (expecting), the USB dac to fix all the issues because of how it is connected. I was shocked to discover shit-tastic audio pops clicks etc, still exist. Please help, for the love of god. What do I need to attach to this post?

Awesome! Great work guys! does the GPU driver blacklisting mean we can blacklist a gpu from UNRAID for easy pass-through? I guess headless pass-through is an (un)official thing now?

I just bought a new to me E5 2678v3, a new Huananzhi X99-TF, and a bunch of ecc DDR3 for my new UNRAID/gaming vm build. For what I paid for it, considering I bios hacked it for all core turbo boost, it performs wonderfully. The Huananzhi board, although it has x99 in the name, has a C612 server chipset. Everything works, and works well. Not sure if that helps decision making op, but for me, the price was right. I considered used Threadripper stuff, but I paid like $330 USD for the cpu/board/DDR3 ram vs the cost comparison alone of the alternative.

I live in the middle of nowhere. Amazon Prime orders take 2 weeks even to reach me, lol. Hong Kong/China shipping is fine enough for me, despite the wait time. The price is right, too. I bought a Huananzhi x99-TF and a Xeon E5-2678v3 to replace my old rig anyways. Should be here soon. Good times. Thanks again for the replies.

Sick. Thanks for that!

I found a kit on eBay, with Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards, and a DAC it looks like. Would this work, you guys think? Seems to be a pretty economical choice, compatibilities aside. It looks like it should be? Here

Yikes. Ok, I'll avoid that then. 1m is what I need, yes-- 2 at the most. The two boxes sit on a common desk. Thanks for the reply.

Can someone advise if my parts list here will have any hiccups? I don't know a whole lot about SFP+, but what I have read and seen, and looked at on this forum, I think these parts are compatible and will work for my needs. If someone could confirm or deny, I'd greatly appreciate it before I make a purchase mistake. This thing is an all eBay purchase: Transceiver's: 2x HPE BladeSystem Compatible 455883-B21 PCIe cards: 2x HP NC522SFP Patch cable: 1M LC UPC to LC UPC Duplex PVC 10G OM3 Multimode Fiber Optic anyone see any incompatibilities? 🤔

Great post! Big question though I'll ask, without having tested your method obviously-- how agout EA's Origin? Origin, is a finicky thing. EA from my experience, went out of its way to prevent simlink drives and NAS directories for game storage. Are you able to test this method with Origin, and if you have already-- does it work?

Thanks Unraid for the interview, and especially thanks @SpaceInvaderOne for all you've contributed to the community! Without you I doubt I would have ever been able to get my own home server running let alone built or even considered in the first place. I've watched so many of your videos and they are all truly helpful. Please don't ever stop making them! 😊

Great! Now if I only knew 'how' to create a .conf file in /etc with root privileges... Lol. Pop OS is based on Ubuntu, and Manjaro on Arch. I think the terminal commands seem to work slightly different depending on the distro you use... I'd love to try this though. Thanks for the reply. edit: holy eff, it worked. THANK YOU.

It doesn't sound like your issue is exactly the same as mine OP. Video with mine 'can' work, if audio is disabled... Sounds like we're in a 'similar' boat though.

Hey guys, I've seen plenty of fixes for so-called 'demonic audio' for windows VM's, but virtually nothing about linux ones. Anyone have a Linux VM equivalent of the MSI utils trick?? I've encountered this problem with both Pop! OS, and Manjaro in their most recent versions with my GPU pass through. I've never had a problem in windows VM with any of this before, so Spaceinvader One's fixes don't seem to apply for me. I'm sick of using windows 10 as an HTPC VM (my server is in a case under my TV), and wanted to make the jump to Linux instead. The first problem I ran into was the obvious, no drivers for my Creative Soundblaster Z sound card, so enter the GPU's HDMI audio. I'm using an OVMF bios with Q35 chipset, and a virtual hdd on the array for the linux VM. It's fully updated... The latest Nvidia proprietary drivers are installed in either case. Pulse is the audio control panel for both. The problem short of video recording it, is when the GPU is enabled, audio repeats itself a hundred times achieving a fraction of an FPS, and same with video. Video feeds with the GPU audio disabled seem to be fine. A severe stuttering that I can't seem to fix... Maybe there's something in /etc I can modify? 🙄

Bump. I have this problem now too, after my previous Windows 10 VM decided to self-destruct randomly one day. Made a new one, set it up once with VNC, then shut it down to edit it via a web browser to include a GPU and sound card pass through. Suffice it to say, editing it, it shits the bed. Any browser, refreshing, etc. Bueller? Any words on this yet?

@Micaiah12 did you have any post-install/fix issues? Did you ever try any different settings? I'm having issues with my RX 480 right now with 6.6.6 that sound/look a whole lot like what you had. I'd be curious to compare notes.