Looking for advice,
I have a server running multiple VMs. Freenas, and two instances of Windows 7. Hardware includes two Xeon 5520's, 36GB of ram, 2 6450 (one in 8x slot and one in 16x slot), and two Intel M1505 sata cards. Each Win7 VM has USB ports and a ATI 6450 with passthrough. I use these VMs as KODI/XBMC frontends. Both machines are working and the passthrough and drivers seems to be properly installed. However, I am having a very frustrating issue. Overtime, the video output and/or audio output gets choppy or ceases to work. Restarting the VM does not resolve the issue, but if I reboot the entire server, the 6450 work again. This is very frustrating because rebooting the server properly with the three VMs takes at least 30 minutes. I have reserved the memory for all three VMs, but I have not done the PCI hole end/start config. Would this resolve this issue? If not what could be the problem? After alot of research, most people it either works or it doesn't. I have not been able to find any suggestions about my issue.
Thanks