PCI passthrough of soundcard?

KenHorse

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Proxmox 8.0.4

I was hoping to be able to pass through the HD audio hardware to a guest running Debian 10 so it can send audio files from the guest to the host's speaker. I have no need for hardware sound anywhere but the Debian guest so this seemed like a way to accomplish that.

I have all the IOMMU requisites set up on the host and it works (I can pass through the PCI USB hub, which I did as a test).

On the host:

Code:
root@PVE:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-LM (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Q87 Express LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)

On the Guest:

Code:
root@Debian:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 1234:1111 (rev 02)
00:03.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio memory balloon
00:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio SCSI
00:10.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCI-PCI bridge
00:1f.0 PCI bridge: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU PCI-PCI bridge
01:1b.0 USB controller: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU XHCI Host Controller (rev 01)

Also on the Guest:

Code:
root@Debian:~# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:272: no soundcards found...

What I am trying to accomplish is having sound from the Debian guest sent to the host's sound system. Is this even possible?
 
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