All I did was check the Wikipedia page [1] for IOMMU-supporting hardware, and I needed to upgrade my CPU from a Phenom to FX. You don't need special audio, just

All I did was check the Wikipedia page [1] for IOMMU-supporting hardware, and I needed to upgrade my CPU from a Phenom to FX. You don't need special audio, just the right motherboard (chipset specifically) and CPU. If you do PCI passthrough, it doesn't matter if the Linux host can talk to the card, the guest OS will take care of everything. Otherwise, check the forums. This has been done many times over the years, and there's no shortage of existing information. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardw...