Hello there,

 

I've got the following problem. For my gaming VM I want to passthrough my Blue Snowball USB microphone. That does work. I see it in the Win10 VM and it gets the current drivers and all but I can't get it to run in teamspeak or any other sound recording software. On my normal Laptop it works like a charm. I've tried to change from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 in the VM settings but that doesn't change anything. Does anyone got a clou?

 

Greetings

I've found the solution myself. It was the option of Windows 10 to activate the microphone to being used by programs...

Passthrough of USB works, But can be unstable. If you find it dropping the mic or any other USB devices consider a more stable method. Assigning the entire USB controller to the VM using IOMMU groups. If possible. Is suggested. If your limited on USB ports that way. Consider a USB hub. Their cheap. And you can use it to break your limited VM assigned USBs into a larger group of ports (This is what i do). If their USB 3.0+ there should be more then enough bandwidth for most use cases.

On 12/28/2018 at 10:46 PM, metathias said:

Passthrough of USB works, But can be unstable. If you find it dropping the mic or any other USB devices consider a more stable method. Assigning the entire USB controller to the VM using IOMMU groups. If possible. Is suggested. If your limited on USB ports that way. Consider a USB hub. Their cheap. And you can use it to break your limited VM assigned USBs into a larger group of ports (This is what i do). If their USB 3.0+ there should be more then enough bandwidth for most use cases.

I've got an aditional USB controller card in the system. I will try that out. The passthrough is pretty fiddly when switching the USB devices from one PC to the other. Thank you for the input!