Has anyone had any luck with DATS in a VM? I keep running into an issue where the output signal has tons of static. Some research leads me to believe it is an issue with IRQ buffer sizes being 1 instead of 10 on older windows, but I also see plenty of people discussing this in the context of it being virtual box as the issue.
I have a few systems at my disposal, but the M1 mac cannot run x86 vms at all, the 2015 MBP with only 2 cores but 16gb ram is mostly up to the task except for the static filled sound, which is only from the DATS - from youtube through the laptop speakers via that driver path is fine. I started on the M1 as it is my current personal machine, then moved to the 2015 machine, so my next step is either a 4 core 16gb i7 linux laptop with virtualbox ( change host from OSX to ubuntu in hope that fixes it) or my work machine which is also OSX but has more resources 2->6 cores, 16gb ->32gb ram ( would rather not mix stuff onto work machine) I suspect more resources is not the answer. I fear a different host is also not the answer, but in the hopes someone has a working VM setup without running windows as a primary OS as I have managed to avoid that for 17 or so years now.
I have a few systems at my disposal, but the M1 mac cannot run x86 vms at all, the 2015 MBP with only 2 cores but 16gb ram is mostly up to the task except for the static filled sound, which is only from the DATS - from youtube through the laptop speakers via that driver path is fine. I started on the M1 as it is my current personal machine, then moved to the 2015 machine, so my next step is either a 4 core 16gb i7 linux laptop with virtualbox ( change host from OSX to ubuntu in hope that fixes it) or my work machine which is also OSX but has more resources 2->6 cores, 16gb ->32gb ram ( would rather not mix stuff onto work machine) I suspect more resources is not the answer. I fear a different host is also not the answer, but in the hopes someone has a working VM setup without running windows as a primary OS as I have managed to avoid that for 17 or so years now.
In case it helps anyone else, I got it working with an ubuntu 20 host. I never got usb pasthrough to work, but just choosing the normal sound in/out in dats in the vm let it work.
I use usb passthrough in vmware player on ubuntu -> win10 guest. USB enumeration works reliably, but larger loads with USB2 and data packets every 125us get samples dropped every few secs - probably the SW overhead is too big for the fast communication.
I ran my DATS v3 on a 2017 MBP (fully spec’d) in VM using Fusion without issue. But I actually prefer running the DATS V3 natively in OS X using REW (Room EQ Wizard) because I like the REW interface, calculation method, plotting and data export flexibility. I’ve been meaning to do a write up showing how to do it. I’ll try post something soon.
I run a DATS V3 on the virtual box on the win 10 system. Actually, it works fine. For a Audio equipment storage room, it's better to install a temperature sensor to monitoring temperature and prevent fire disaster.
Thirded! 🙂
I run DATS v3 via a Windows 10 guest in Virtualbox 6.1 on a Macbook Pro host but get stuttering every 50-100 ms, regardless of the VM configuration - and I've played with it quite a bit. I'm tired of what that does to my measurements, so any future hours spent researching seem better applied to exploring the configuration of REW on my Mac to use the DATS hardware. A quick check shows that John has expanded the calibration options since last I looked, but I need to dig into it more to see if it now aligns with what DATS expects, as well as assess proper level settings, as my quick first attempt came back with levels too low. (Though I really did want the VM option to work to avoid losing the rub/buzz test of the DATS sofware.)
I run DATS v3 via a Windows 10 guest in Virtualbox 6.1 on a Macbook Pro host but get stuttering every 50-100 ms, regardless of the VM configuration - and I've played with it quite a bit. I'm tired of what that does to my measurements, so any future hours spent researching seem better applied to exploring the configuration of REW on my Mac to use the DATS hardware. A quick check shows that John has expanded the calibration options since last I looked, but I need to dig into it more to see if it now aligns with what DATS expects, as well as assess proper level settings, as my quick first attempt came back with levels too low. (Though I really did want the VM option to work to avoid losing the rub/buzz test of the DATS sofware.)
Hi folks,
Sorry it took so long to finish this, but I put together instructions for using a DATSv3 on REW which allows you to run both natively on macOS. I hope this helps.
Sorry it took so long to finish this, but I put together instructions for using a DATSv3 on REW which allows you to run both natively on macOS. I hope this helps.
Are you sure. As i understand it, x86 10 or 11 runs under the latest versions of parallels 17. On the big MacBooks faster then the native x86 MacBooks that preceded them.
https://www.parallels.com/ca/products/desktop/
I just dedicated one of my MacPros to Win XP just to run S+L Woofer Tester 2
dave
IIRC there's a single thread on all the USBs causing starvation and the latency is unpredictable. I can't remember what I was doing at the time but I remember researching it and those two points came up. That was on OSX, VirtualBox and Windows for telescope control.