I hope this is the right place where to post my question.
I'd like to know whether it is actually possible to use an USB audio interface as main audio device inside a Windows virtual machine (VirtualBox), so to set up an entire... musical environment inside a dedicated VM, quite easy to be backed up or, in case, restored after some... route accident.
Theoretically it should be feasible without problems, thanks to the now consolidated ability to attach any USB compliant device to a VM, but as far as I know some audio interfaces don't get detected or, even when regularly detected and identified (as external USB audio devices) by the virtual machine, do not allow the following installation of the drivers, or they allow it but then they don't work well (no audio at all or quite disturbed audio, Asio drivers not recognized by the DAW and so on). Maybe because they are not totally compliant to the USB standards or for other reasons. Manufacturers, on their hand, very rarely supply information about this.
So my question is:
is there, amongst the forum users, anyone who has actually succeeded in such a task?
Thanks in advance for any advice or help.
I'd like to know whether it is actually possible to use an USB audio interface as main audio device inside a Windows virtual machine (VirtualBox), so to set up an entire... musical environment inside a dedicated VM, quite easy to be backed up or, in case, restored after some... route accident.
Theoretically it should be feasible without problems, thanks to the now consolidated ability to attach any USB compliant device to a VM, but as far as I know some audio interfaces don't get detected or, even when regularly detected and identified (as external USB audio devices) by the virtual machine, do not allow the following installation of the drivers, or they allow it but then they don't work well (no audio at all or quite disturbed audio, Asio drivers not recognized by the DAW and so on). Maybe because they are not totally compliant to the USB standards or for other reasons. Manufacturers, on their hand, very rarely supply information about this.
So my question is:
is there, amongst the forum users, anyone who has actually succeeded in such a task?
Thanks in advance for any advice or help.