Daniel Brockmann
2010-Oct-07 07:30 UTC
[Xen-users] Sound or USB passthrough for Windows guest at Citrix XenServer 5.6 Free
Hi there, I''ve started using Xen through Citrix XenServer 5.6 Free. Now I am thinking about adding a USB sound device to my virtual Windows machine. One idea would be to access a virtual audio device that streams audio to a client. I''ve stumbled over the possibility to SSH-forward PulseAudio but this is not possible for Windows on either one or the other side of the chain. So I thought adding the virtualization host''s onboard sound device via PCI passthrough. But this means that I''d need to install another sound device in case I move the virtual Windows to another host that would possibly either have a different PCI device ID or even some different sound device. Easiest would therefore be to add a USB sound device. But AFAIK this is not yet supported with my used version of Xen. So it may either be passing through a USB controller of the host (which has the same drawbacks like passing through the sound) or using one of these USB-over-Ethernet solutions. One that I found is "FabulaTech USB Over Network" which has a linux service and could be accessed via a client software in the Windows guest. But I am hesitating a bit to install the "USB Over Network" server onto the XenServer host. Does anyone know if it is reliable? Or can you name a (possibly better working) alternative? CU, Mészi. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Daniel Brockmann
2010-Oct-07 10:43 UTC
[Xen-users] Sound or USB passthrough for Windows guest at Citrix XenServer 5.6 Free
Hi there, I''ve started using Xen through Citrix XenServer 5.6 Free. Now I am thinking about adding a USB sound device to my virtual Windows machine. One idea would be to access a virtual audio device that streams audio to a client. I''ve stumbled over the possibility to SSH-forward PulseAudio but this is not possible for Windows on either one or the other side of the chain. So I thought adding the virtualization host''s onboard sound device via PCI passthrough. But this means that I''d need to install another sound device in case I move the virtual Windows to another host that would possibly either have a different PCI device ID or even some different sound device. Easiest would therefore be to add a USB sound device. But AFAIK this is not yet supported with my used version of Xen. So it may either be passing through a USB controller of the host (which has the same drawbacks like passing through the sound) or using one of these USB-over-Ethernet solutions. One that I found is "FabulaTech USB Over Network" which has a linux service and could be accessed via a client software in the Windows guest. But I am hesitating a bit to install the "USB Over Network" server onto the XenServer host. Does anyone know if it is reliable? Or can you name a (possibly better working) alternative? CU, Mészi. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users