Selecting a usb 3.0 PCI card for pass through

[jmduncan01]

This isn't an issue but more a question or request for recommendations. Want to passthrough individual pci usb 3.0 cards to each of 3 VMs. In searching I ran into this card.

 

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-12-400-546&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC-_-pla-_-Add-On+Cards-_-9B-12-400-546&gclid=Cj0KEQiAy53DBRCo4en29Zvcla0BEiQAVIDcc-135MmzIre3-kaBtY_yEZ5fn9e8imYT0y7DnGRMviQaAhHx8P8HAQ

 

It has 4 individual controllers on the same card. I'm not so much worried about speed as I am being able to hot plug devices to the separate VMs. Does anyone know if this will work so I can pass each of the controllers through to separate VMs.

 

Edit: Just looking at this maybe should be in the hardware forum. Oops Sorry.

 

Thanks

 

[firepol]

Hi, did you actually find a good usb card to pass through?

 

I need one too, I bought a Delock PCIE 2 x USB 3.0 and I could not pass it through, because it could not get a separate IOMMU group or I got an error message in the kernel when connecting my Plantronics RIG 500 HD USB headset (main reason to pass through a usb card was to use a headset in the VM, for gaming purposes).

 

dmesg

[  284.435098] usb 5-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd

[  284.548075] usb 5-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=047f, idProduct=c03b

[  284.548082] usb 5-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

[  284.548087] usb 5-1.4: Product: Plantronics HD1

[  284.548090] usb 5-1.4: Manufacturer: Plantronics

[  284.574817] input: Plantronics Plantronics HD1 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0/usb5/5-1/5-1.4/5-1.4:1.3/0003:047F:C03B.0005/input/input21

[  284.627733] plantronics 0003:047F:C03B.0005: input,hiddev0,hidraw4: USB HID v1.00 Device [Plantronics Plantronics HD1] on usb-0000:04:00.0-1.4/input3

[  284.671772] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

[  285.027139] DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2

[  285.027151] DMAR: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [04:00.0] fault addr fffa9000

              DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set

[  609.331141] usb 1-11.4: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd

 

Some details of my USB card if you are interested:

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s nullglob

for d in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/devices/*; do

    n=${d#*/iommu_groups/*}; n=${n%%/*}

    printf 'IOMMU Group %s ' "$n"

    lspci -nns "${d##*/}"

done;

[...other groups...group 1 e.g. is the one containing my nvidia card I pass through]

IOMMU Group 6 00:1b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Root Port #17 [8086:a167] (rev f1)

IOMMU Group 6 00:1b.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H PCI Root Port #20 [8086:a16a] (rev f1)

IOMMU Group 6 03:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VL805 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1106:3483] (rev 01)

 

Via Technologies is the Delock USB card. As yopu can see it goes in the same group of the PCI Root Port. Not sure if that is normal...

[darianf]

i'm also interested for a card that plays nice with linux and windows 10.

i would say also OS X - but at this moment, this os is more like a curiosity, rather than necessity...