As long as you do pass through of the USB device (or USB host controller), it should be fine. The VM acesses it directlty without passing through a virtualized version of the device (like what normally happens with sound, network, graphics) and the VM can even DMA to it. Down side is that the hardware isn’t visible to the host anymore, so if you pass through a GPU, it’s used exclusively by the VM, not the host. If you connect a monitor to the GPU, you see the VM, not the host. So you can only do this with hardware that is intended specifically for use within the VM. Zune management sounds like an ideal use case. See IOMMU if you’re interested in some if the tech side if it.

This is my first time doing pass through and idk what other optimizations I could do or if I’ve done anything wrong/sub optimal. I’d like your input. I’ll send you a message later

For anyone curious if this is an option (running windows in a VM for audio), I’ve had good luck so far. Feels native, but I have more tests to do before I say it’s viable. Without passing through (iommu) the audio interface, it’s unusable.

I installed Linux and set up a Win 10 pro VM yesterday. I did GPU pass through (although I doubt that was necessary). I also did pass through of my audio interface (MOTU 8pre-es). Windows saw it and it showed up in the proprietary MOTU software after installing the drivers in the VM, however I couldn’t get audio to play. I then tried passing through the USB root hub (built in to mother board) that the MOTU was connected to and then it worked. It worked just as it would running on bare metal. I tried playing a couple projects in Cubase and had no audio dropouts. Cubase has a meter that shows you if you missed audio buffer deadlines and why (CPU, disk) and it didn’t, to my surprise.

Things I still want to try:

1. How low can I get my buffer size / ASIO latency?
2. Can it handle 192KHz sample rate and at what buffer size? The tests I did yesterday were 48k and 44.1k projects.
3. How does it feel (in terms of latency) when using a MIDI controller keyboard.
4. Can I do multi channel recording without dropouts?
5. Does the VM break Cubase’s audio latency compensation when recording (this determines recording latency and automatically aligns the recording to where yiud expect it tobel). I have a feeling that the VM may introduce a latency that Cubase doesn’t account for.
6. Does iLok or another license that I need fail in VM? I only used Steinberg licenser based software yesterday.
7. Probably some other stuff I’ve not thought of yet.

What I’ve not figured out is a way to sort of boot my existing windows install. I’m sure there’s a way, but idk. I know it’s possible to pass an entire disk to the VM, but my host Linux install is on the same nvme. I guess what I’d want is a way to create a virtual block device that maps the other partitions from the nvme and then pass that virtual block device to the VM. Alternatively, install Linux to a different drive, but I’d rather not buy another nvme at this time.

They also dropped support for older plugins of which I have a lot. This is a big issue for audio stuff IMO. Apple breaks backwards compatibility frequently, which has some benefits, but commercial audio plugins are expensive and updates generally aren’t free. I actually have a bunch of very old plugins that were free, but no longer supported. Many were windows only and I can still run them roughly 15-20 years later, but even the ones that were released for Mac, I have no hope of running.

If you’re doing audio work professionally, you probably keep buying updates for your plugins, so Mac is probably a good choice. I don’t even release music (I just make noise). I’m just a hobbiest (with some higher end equipment and software). There’s a lot of hobbiests who wouldn’t be able to afford the software update costs (ignoring the Apple hardware costs). Depending on the plugin libraries, it’s bigger than the Apple hardware costs. Granted there are some really good free plugins, but some of the really popular stuff isn’t.

I had some bad g.skill DDR4 last year. I assumed it was out of warranty. Thanks for the tip!

What DAW do you use? I built a new PC and was thinking of trying to run DAW (Cubase in my case) via windows VM with pass through of my audio interface. Given the timing sensitivity of audio, I’m not optimistic. Have you tried this?

How would it be too late? To develop a huge following? Idk, buy if you just want to stream for the hell of it, I don’t see how that matters. I’ve not gamed much the last few years, but I started again recently, upgraded my computer, and my ISP bumped my upload speed (finally), so I can stream without it impacting my game play.

I turn it on if I remember, but since I’m streaming just because why not (maybe I’ll find someone new to game with or maybe someone will be amused by my shitty skills), I don’t do it regularly and have no regular followers, as such, I forget to check the chat and have often had people join and type and then leave, presumably because I ignored them (or I’m just not worth watching).

OK a lot of rambling, I guess the summary is, stream because you want to, not because you want a following/make money and then it’s definitely not too late, but also don’t ignore the people who join your stream.

It appears that it shall be known as the Dalacos Paradox: using something as an example of something that is best ignored or forgotten, thus increasing its attention and preventing it from being forgotten.

EDIT: I found “boomerang effect”, which I think captures this in that you get the opposite of the intended behavior although this seems to be focused more on persuasion rather than bringing attention to something that you don’t want to get attention.

An non political example might be “this book/movie/picture/song is so bad that no one should read/watch/see/hear it”, thus brining attention to it and causing more people to read/watch/see/hear it than would have had it not been mentioned. Most of the stuff I was finding that sounded close seemed to be not quite right (related to persuasion or in the context of counter examples).

I’ve used WxWidgets and Win32 API in C. I suspect OP will quickly learn why electron is popular even though it’s so bloated. That said, sounds like OP wants a light weight and cross platform option, so WxWidgets gets my vote. Granted it’s been over 10 years since I’ve used it.

I agree unless the backend server is including it in the response/response headers for some reason, which wouldn’t make a tool like this work in the general case. I thought maybe there was a Cloudflare API that would inadvertently leak the origin IP in an error response in some special case or something of that nature, but I’d assume they would have patched that rather quickly. I’m very curious if this tool ever worked and if so, how.

If you had a single specific host you were trying to find the origin server for, you could basically scan their ASN and well known data center, particularly the big cloud provider, IPs by sending requests to them with the desired host header to try to find an entry point (load balancer, reverse proxy, web server), but I don’t think that’s practical, particularly with a free API that (presumably) responded in a reasonable amount of time. The underlying API used by the linked script is no longer available, so I don’t know if it worked or response times.

Furthermore, a well configured system should ignore requests not originating from Cloudflare’s IPs (or use a tunnel) to prevent bypassing Cloudflare, although I’ve seen plenty not do this. Cloudflare even publishes the subnets you should allow. Easy to integrate that in to a cron type job, terraform, or other way to keep rules updated even though they’ve very rarely changed.

I was curious as to how it’s done unfortunately that repo won’t answer. All it’s doing is calling a separate http api that returns the IP. I looked quickly and didn’t find a repo for that other API.