The two solutions that I use are: 1) USB headphones attached to a USB-PCI card that is passed through to the guest at the PCI level. Passing through the USB headphones was too crackly, and I preferred to buy a $10 card than debug.
2) In-home streaming (via SteamLink; I have no experience with nVidia Shield) Will On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Brandon Ganem <brandonga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had success passing through the built in sound card, but it requires > proper IOMMU grouping and obliviously you cannot use it on the host anymore. > > I believe there are others that use pulse audio and a virtualized sound > card, but I haven't done that. > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Bronek Kozicki <b...@spamcop.net> wrote: > >> On 02/05/2016 18:52, Brett Peckinpaugh wrote: >> >>> I was wondering what are some options for audio? Currently using the >>> monitor, but want to use my speakers for better quality. The options I can >>> think of are a PCIE soundcard or USB sound device. >>> >>> Are there any better options? Would a USB which is cheaper and not >>> needed in the case blocking fans work well? Currently I am passing through >>> a PCIE USB 3.0 card which is where I would connect it. >>> >> >> >> In this case external USB DAC will be your best bet - e.g. like SMSL M3, >> Audioengine D1 (note, I had clicking sound with this one), Focusrite >> Scarlett, FiiO E10K, Topping VX1, Audioquest Dragonfly, Shiit Modi 2 etc. >> Some of these use "standard" drivers and USB protocols, hence do not need >> extra drivers (e.g. SMSL M3), some need extra drivers (e.g. Audioengine). >> Some have builtin headphones amplifier, some have volume regulation, some >> require additional power (more cables), just do your research. >> >> More expensive devices utilise asynchronous USB protocol, which makes >> them more resilient to jitter (and also requires extra drivers). Also some >> support DSD (1bit format used for SACD records) e.g Teac UD-301. This does >> not mean that cheaper devices sound any worse - unless you have $1000 >> amplifier and headphones already (in which case I doubt you would ask here >> for advice). >> >> >> B. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vfio-users mailing list >> vfio-users@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > vfio-users mailing list > vfio-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users > >
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