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Re: [PLUG] dedicating a sound card to a vm
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Brian Stempin wrote:
> VMWare Server is not a true hypervisor in that it never has control of
> the hardware -- the host OS does. This is why a raw pass-though is not
> possible. If it were something like VMWare ESXi or Xen, then its the
> hypervisor that directly controls the hardware, allowing for
> pass-through features.
>
> That being said, VMWare server will allow USB pass-through via special
> drivers. If the sound card in question was a USB card, then it'd work.
yeah, :) knew it wasn't a type-1. but it does have its own system user
on the host, doesn't it?
although i THINK the alsa/oss services run as root, so my guess is they
wouldn't be able to be circumvented.
oh well; i tried :)
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