[vfio-users] Creative ZXRi onboard passthrough

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Eric Hattemer <hattenator at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/2015 02:29 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Eric Hattemer <hattenator at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard that comes
>> with a Sound Blaster ZxRi chip onboard.  I've managed to get my GeForce
>> card passthrough with vfio, and working with Windows. The last trick was
>> the -cpu kvm=off flag.  But whatever I've tried, I can't get the Sound
>> Blaster to go through.  Part of the problem is that I don't really
>> understand what the chip even is.  Nothing in lspci says anything about
>> 'Sound Blaster' or 'Creative'.  `sudo lspci -nn|grep -E '1102|1274'`
>> returns nothing.  Maybe I need to boot directly into Windows to see what it
>> calls it.  But I think it's this one:
>>
>> 00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Sunrise
>> Point-H HD Audio [8086:a170] (rev 31)
>>
>
> Nope, that's the integrated Intel audio.
>
>
> Not surprising, that's not the device you're intending to assign, not to
> mention it's entangled with all sorts of motherboard management functions
> because z170 sucks.  lspci please.
>
>
> [eric at localhost ~]$ sudo lspci
>

Um... do you have the audio card disabled in the BIOS?
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