@kris Can you confirm the state of sound card drivers/comparability on CORE?
When I load stock FreeBSD liveCD on my system, I can ls /dev and see a sndstat file that, when opened, shows me a list of detected GPU (including HDMI) and there is a music0 device inside /dev.
But when I do the same command on the same system with CORE installed, I don’t get the sndstat or the music0 device.
I’m afraid to ask why you’d want sound devices on a NAS 
But to answer your question, we build with all the sound things disabled on CORE intentionally. I don’t know offhand if you can kldload them dynamically though. You may be able to do that.
Appreciate the response. I’m essentially trying to make a conference call (via linphone) in a desktop enabled jail, and stream the audio to an icecast server using butt (broadcast using this tool) but it is not detecting any inputs, and therefore can’t run.
I’m assuming that if a device is passed through to a VM, then the VM will be responsible for all the above mentioned things, including sound support?
Yea, if you do a PCI passthrough of the entire device then the guest OS should pick it up and attach a driver. Your mileage may vary with this on CORE though. On SCALE its a bit better supported, and includes ability to do an individual USB pass-through in case you need to pass some USB sound device through that way as well.
I can’t comment on the linphone/icecast/butt use case, but (generally) care may be required with any application that consumes a detachable audio device.
Upstream sound: Implement asynchronous device detach · freebsd/freebsd-src@44e128f has been cherry-picked to stable/14 (with a view to 14.1-RELEASE) but not stable/13.
HTH
Understood. And thanks. Ubuntu VM works ok for now for what I’m doing, but I prefer jails. Can’t make GhostBSD work though. It needs an audio input. I started a thread about it.
As it turns out, pulse audio works nicely inside a jail. One just needs the right combination of applications that support pulseaudio to do whatever one wants to do.
