Daniel Brockmann
2010-10-07 07:30:02 UTC
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.
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.