New to this Some general questions

[StrongGenetics]

Just got up my first Server and starting to mess around with vms and forgive me if this is a stupid question but....

Is having audio while using Vms through TrueNas Scale or any other Hypervisor a thing? I cant seem to get it to work

Ive even installed a Windows 10 VM with the Virtio method for the drivers and it gave me everything but audio....Also have a Linux Mint VM up and no audio either

Excuse me if this is dumb question again im just trying to find my footing here....really wanted to have some Linux Vms and windows Vms as alternatives but with no audio im wondering if i should be trying another route......

Really like TrueNas Scale and my docker containers and storage are Flawless i just need to know if the VM part of these hypervisors werent made to actually be fully featured so i can stop chasing my tail lol

Using a Intel CPU with 770 Graphics with VT-d & Virtualization enabled in bios

 

[jgreco]

You typically need something like RDP that conveys audio back to your client. You don't get audio over other protocols such as VNC.

 

[Whattteva]

Yeah, what @jgreco said. You need a VDI solution that actually delivers that audio information like RDP and I think Teamviewer also does. Out of the two, I'd probably prefer RDP cause it tends to have the best performance for Windows.

 

[jgreco]

You typically need something like RDP that conveys audio back to your client. You don't get audio over other protocols such as VNC.

Oh duh the other option I meant to mention is to pass through your sound hardware on the NAS using PCIe passthru to the VM. This of course means that the audio would be generated at the NAS host, and would require the NAS host to have audio hardware, which most server boards do not. Or I guess you could do it with a USB passthru device too. This is, of course, of limited usefulness.

 

[Whattteva]

Oh duh the other option I meant to mention is to pass through your sound hardware on the NAS using PCIe passthru to the VM. This of course means that the audio would be generated at the NAS host, and would require the NAS host to have audio hardware, which most server boards do not. Or I guess you could do it with a USB passthru device too. This is, of course, of limited usefulness.

I think you could also passthrough a GPU (never done it myself personally), which would usually support audio through the HDMI/DP output.

 

[jgreco]

I think you could also passthrough a GPU (never done it myself personally), which would usually support audio through the HDMI/DP output.

DOH!!!!! (sheepishly: Whattteva!)

 

[StrongGenetics]

Thanks everyone...I did buy a cheap Quadro P1000 to help with some plex transcoding but i dont believe that does audio and anyways when i try to pass it through to a VM it gives me a IOMMU error even when im using intel and have all the virtualization options enabled in the bios

I guess i use the VM function for some light tasks and give up on the audio portion

Server is running in a 2u chassis so GPU choices are limited ......Thanks again.....

 

[StrongGenetics]

This is what i get when i try to pass through the P1000.....Im running a 13th Gen Intel

 

[Whattteva]

I guess i use the VM function for some light tasks and give up on the audio portion

Any reason why you can't just use RDP? You don't need ANY sound card at all to be able to pass audio with RDP.

 

[StrongGenetics]

Any reason why you can't just use RDP? You don't need ANY sound card at all to be able to pass audio with RDP.

I will look into doing that...Thanks