Hi and thanks in advance for any help you can offer to the topic. I've been searching through the board looking for an answer and haven't been able to find one. I know it is possible to pass through usb devices but I haven't seen any posts on passing through usb ethernet devices.

 

I'm out of pci/pcie slots and have some usb gigabit ethernet adapters that I would like to make use of. So I'm wondering if it is possible.

 

My goal is to have a Windows 10 VM with gpu passthrough and dedicated NIC so that I can test it with nvidia game streaming. I've tested it using the software bridge in unraid and it doesn't work very well for game streaming so I'm hoping a dedicated NIC will fix the issue. I've used the checkbox approach in the VM manager to pass the USB ethernet through to the VM, but it still wants to use the onboard NIC that is in use by unraid. Also upon reboot unraid grabs the USB ethernet as the primary NIC instead of the onboard which I don't want.

 

Any help or suggestions are much appreciated.

If you want to do this I would suggest passing through a whole usb controller then you can plug usb lan into that.

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36768.0

 

I am in the same boat as jspence27, I have tried to pass though the USB NIC as a do with other USB devices but the VM can not recognize the device.  Also is there a way to disable Unraid from using the USB NIC?

 

 

Tested the USB NIC and it does work on standalone systems, multiple OSs, and Unraid can use it.