Passthrough a Libredrive drive to a VM (proxmox)

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QuillzToxic
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Passthrough a Libredrive drive to a VM (proxmox)

Post by QuillzToxic »

Hi,

I'm currently trying to get out of the not exactly good situation of running applications on the proxmox host and passing through my Libredrive bluray player to a VM with a gui running makemkv.

I've tried using iscsi with this https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/a-sim ... ved.47541/ and this tutorial to no success with this as a result
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I've also tried using a this https://tinyurl.com/2m4yc2zw pci-e sata controller to passthrough, and have since sent it back. I'm not sure if anyone has had success with this? I could try another sata card? I could try USB passthrough?
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Re: Passthrough a Libredrive drive to a VM (proxmox)

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USB would probably be the easiest you may have to pass the whole controller through but it should work
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summer600
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Re: Passthrough a Libredrive drive to a VM (proxmox)

Post by summer600 »

It's an older post, but I am doing the exact same thing. I have an external Blu-ray player connected to my proxmox server that is USB forwarded into a windows 11 VM. In proxmox go to the VM and the hardware menu. Add a USB device and (with the Blu-ray player connected) select it from the options. I choose to forward the USB port, but you could also choose the device so only that device connected to the port is forwarded.

It worked very well, but ince a few weeks I am starting to have problems. Not sure whether it is proxmox, windows 11 of makemkv, but somehow I suspect windows 11 since both proxmox and makemkv were not updated in that timeframe. Now after 1 disk copy the device simply disappears (even in windows develice manager) and most of the time (but not always) unplugging the device an plugging it in again makes it reappear in windows. I also have to restart makemkv since it does not detect the added device once it has lost that same device previously.

I still have to create a linux vm to forward to that and see whether the problem disappears and I can conclusively say it was windows.
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