Reddit mentions of Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0 PCIe card

Generally when people are discussing USB passthrough they're passing through the controller, so that it is transparent to the guest OS (guest os is responsible for drivers, etc, and has direct hardware access). For hot plug to work the controller would need to be passed through.

Any HUB/Extender that connects to a USB port that you choose to pass through would be passed through in its entirety to a single guest OS.

There is this card that has a separate controller for each port, which means you could have 4 VMs each with their own host controller:

https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10?th=1

Then you could add a hub to each of the ports if you want more devices connected.

That USB PCIE card is pretty amazing !
https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10?th=1

Not cheap but a cool find !

But I can't see myself drop $2000 on a cpu..

However, it will be VERY obvious to you when you need the third sensor.You'll find yourself frequently facing the direction without sensors and visual glitches everywhere, trying to turn around and deal with whatever in game objective you were dealing with previously.

If your not experiencing this then wait :)

As a List (That you didn't ask for) for what I bought for Roomscale:4 port /w controller USB 3.0 card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XPUHO10)Additional Sensor (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0727WDPX6) - Note this includes an 2.0 USB extension cable, 2.0 can stretch farther without signal loss.

**Extra Equipment**10 Ft HDMI extension (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D5H91KE) - For the Oculus Headset16 Ft USB Active extension (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0179MXKU8) - For the Oculus headset

Hangers for the Oculus cable (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XY5WKXW) - this just gets the cables from under your feet, it is my favorite

It was my idea so I guess I will go first.

Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0 PCIe card - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XPUHO10

Don't watch too much LTT any more but caught this one on a recent video. It is a USB card with 4 ports on 4 seperate controllers.
Could come in quite useful especially where speed or direct connectablitly is concerned. Though hot plug support is kind of added in recent versions of KVM, it isn't quite ready for seamless or bug free use yet.

in our 2010 Macs we use these. We have 5 of them and they do graphics for Broadcast TV all day long. Adobe Suite and Cinema 4D. Im havent looked into upgrading to 1070s yet.

OSX Sierra and 64GB Memory

EVGA GeForce GTX 970

Samsung 500gb SSD

https://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3AU/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1505944526&sr=1-9&keywords=apricorn%2Bsata&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10

How do you have yours mounted? That's a huge play area for the Rift. Try unplugging your HMD USB then plugging it back in when you get the 1 fps controller tracking. Gets rid of it for me every single time.

You're talking about this card from Sonnet, right? I'm tempted, but I don't think it's worth it. I bet a card with 2 Fresco controllers would be good enough as well, maybe a dual ASMedia one.

Daaaaamn, it's $110: https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10

Anyone test this or the card you linked? Technically latency could still be an issue that disqualifies it. The VLI controllers on the card you linked are not approved by Oculus, they specifically say not to get the 5 or 7 port Inateck cards because they use the VLI chips for some of the USB slots.

I still think Oculus could have them make a 5 USB slot card with maybe 2 or 3 high quality controllers and custom drivers. I'd be willing to pay $50 or more to get rid of any residual problems.

if you are going to add a lot of external drives then you need to add more USB 3.0 cards.
But there is a difference between the $30 4 port and the $100 4 port.
For example the one in the link below has 4 dedicated USB 3 controllers on the card, and it connects to PCI-e x4 so it can make use of a lot of bandwidth. The cheaper cards don't have the ability to support all that bandwidth, but they are useful in particular situations.

So you want 4 or 8 drives to 4 ports the $30 is ok.
If you want 16 with same speed as if you went right to the pc then the one below is want you want.

https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1522273173&sr=1-1&keywords=Sonnet+Allegro+Pro+USB+3.0+PCIe+card


Its up to you if you can put in 3 or 4 card into your pc then go for the lower cost cards. If you only have 1 or 2 areas to connect the card then go for the $100.

This here is the expansion card to go for:

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegroprousb3pcie.html

https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-4-Port-Windows-Compatible/dp/B00XPUHO10/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1523992582&sr=8-3&keywords=sonnet%2Busb%2B3&th=1

It has 4 ports with 4 individual USB 3 controller chips. That means you can run 4 sensors at full speed with this card without running into bandwidth issues.

FWIW this card worked great for me, I was able to pass all four individual controllers through to different (non-Mac) VMs.

https://smile.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10/

Since the card is aimed at the Mac market, I think your VM should have no trouble using the FL1100 USB controllers on it.

Cool!

Can you already share some information? Which hardware are you planning to use? What will the custom case look like?

Regarding the USB card: I just recently found out that these cards exist. There was a discussion about them on the vfio-users mailinglist. This card should also have the right capabilites.

I use this pcie card. https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519251171&sr=1-1&keywords=allegro+pro

1 controller for each usb. Then in each usb i plug in a 4 port usb hub. so u can use 16 hdds in this pcie card.

Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0 PCIe card

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XPUHO10/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've had good luck with this. Whatever you get make sure to get a card with dedicated controller per port.

I bought this sonnett alegro which looks to be slightly bigger than the pcie x1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XPUHO10/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's a pic of the inside of my build by the way - http://i.picpar.com/9XMc.png

For day to day use I have the hackintosh running on the RX 560, usually the Vega is used for Windows gaming. WX 7100 is my host GPU for Linux. The top PCI card is a Sonnet USB card, which supports passthrough of individual USB controllers, this one specifically: https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-Pro-PCIe-card/dp/B00XPUHO10/

Along with the 1950X I have 64GB RAM and around 20TB of storage for my file server.

Not sure if this card is on the Oculus whitelist, but it has 4 controllers, 450MB/s per USB slot (PCIe x4).

If my two 3.0 controllers aren't enough this would be the next step. I won't settle with USB 2.0 after buying five active USB 3.0 extension cables.

Heads up if you ever have the issue, but I switched out the Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0 with generic Windows drivers for the slightly cheaper Startech version with generic Windows drivers and now all my sensors and headset show up as USB 3.0.