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Hi all, I have an NZXT Kraken X62 and I am wondering if it is ok or safe to pass-through the USB portion to a windows vm.

I'm not really sure what the USB cable is for and I don't want to ruin my threadripper.

 

Also, if I do pass that through, will I be able to use the NZXT cam software to control the lighting and monitor the CPU temps?

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

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Not sure if this helps the OP or the follow-up poster but I use a Corsair Commander Pro to adjust LED's and Fan speeds. This device is plugged in to a USB 2 header on my MOBO and shows up as a device eligible to attach to a VM. By doing so I am able to control everything using iCue software in a Windows VM which is running almost all the time. My Pump is NOT attached to this device and I control its speed as well as the LED's for the pump through the bios. I'm sure they could be hooked into the Commander but I am out of ports.

 

With this said I would like to control these device in UnRaid when the VM is not running but have yet to investigate a method to do so. Its on my list of things to do.

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I have an X570 Aorus Master with a 3900X and similarly the commander pro plugged in to a USB 2 header on my MOBO and shows up as a device eligible to attach to a VM. But doing so (ticking the boxes, I have two corsair devices?! maybe also the power supply iLink, which is also connected to the commander pro) and rebooting the Windows VM, iCue does not detect any device and thus unable to control the leds and fan speeds.

 

I have also tried attaching just either one of them, to no avail, obviously.

Have you done anything special, like passing through the relevant USB controller? At least I cannot do that, because then I loose network.

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On 2/3/2020 at 12:07 PM, gerard6110 said:

I have an X570 Aorus Master with a 3900X and similarly the commander pro plugged in to a USB 2 header on my MOBO and shows up as a device eligible to attach to a VM. But doing so (ticking the boxes, I have two corsair devices?! maybe also the power supply iLink, which is also connected to the commander pro) and rebooting the Windows VM, iCue does not detect any device and thus unable to control the leds and fan speeds.

 

I have also tried attaching just either one of them, to no avail, obviously.

Have you done anything special, like passing through the relevant USB controller? At least I cannot do that, because then I loose network.

I'm trying to passthrough my commander pro to a VM and running into same issue as you. Were you able to find a solution for this. 

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