[LAU] Audio performance in guest VM (MS-Win) on Linux host

[Banibrata Dutta]

Thank you for the reply Hans.So using USB redirect, I can access any USB
audio interface, but shouldn't have to worry too much about the interrupt
latency or guest kernel behaviour, when it comes to low-latency behaviour ?

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 8:22 PM Hans Wilmers <hanswil at notam02.no> wrote:

> Hi,
> there are several possibilities to make the guest OS access USB
> peripherals (almost) directly:
>
> USB Redirect
> and
> USB Passthrough
>
> https://github.com/kimduho/kvm/wiki/KVM-USB-Redirect-or-Passthrough
>
> I can select USB redirect comfortably using a spice client, and a KVM
> virtual machine on another machine - and it works fine even over the
> network.
>
> / Hans
>
>
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> On 10/08/2019 10:34, bdutta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any comparative study of various hypervisors (KVM,
> > VMware, Virtualbox) running Windows guests, on Linux hosts -- in respect
> of
> > quality of audio software, in terms of latency, jitter, glitches etc.
> Based
> > on my reading, I've understood that accuracy and reliability of the timer
> > interrupt available to guest kernel (in VM) should not be expected to be
> > equal to same on bare-metal. However, are there some hypervisors
> > (workstation oriented), that are better than others in this regard ?
> >
> > The question is in context of need to run some Windows software which
> > doesn't work well under WINE (even with WineASIO, various recommended
> WINE
> > tricks applied), and I find the need to setup/maintain a dual-boot
> > environment too cumbersome, as I do 90% of my work in Linux.
> >
> > regards,
> > BD
> >
> >
> >
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