Zero_Chaos, Thanks for the response it was very informative. No shame in being publicly shot down, especially from an expert it's a great learning experience :)
I wanted to mention a few things in response though. Some are corrections to my original email, some suggestions and some follow up questions. 1) So far what I had gathered from all sources was that only performance and data rates would get hurt running in a VM, hence the preference for bare metal. This is the first time I have heard of the actual USB passthough issue being soo massive, most blogs I read people had made it work somehow. I had problems a few years ago when I was trying to use it with my AWUS036NH card in Backtrack4r2 and up. I always figured it was an issue at my side as a lot of people were able to use it properly[Vivek Ramachandran in his Security Tube videos]. For the life of me I never understood why airmon-ng would pick up data when run for the first time on a fresh host and guest install and then would never ever work again, is that what you were referring to with the rfkill option ? I think the fact that an expert like you has had the same frustrating experience I feel much better now that it wasn't that I did not try hard but that the inherent problem is so muti-faceted that there is no conclusive solution for it. 2) When I mentioned Intel Chipset I forgot to add a link to http://www.ettus.com/kb/detail/usrp-b200-and-b210-usb-30-streaming-rate-benchmarks even though this was for USB3 I assumed that there would be similar performance characteristics with USB2. I mentioned I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 I forgot to mention it has the Intel QM77 Express chipset and Intel 7 series/c216 Chupset family USB enhanced Host controller. Any comments/suggestions on this particular USB chipset? 3) Based on what you have said I think its a software problem(particularly the handling of the USB software stuff) than a hardware problem so I hope with time someone comes up with a solution for the same in the mean time I will take your advice and go with using it on Bare Metal. I have suffered enough in the Virtualized environment. Though barring CPU cycles and any hardware limitation do you think using something like BorIP with some extensions would be a better solution? 4) I can't use dual boot for reasons I don't want to go into here, but its not a technical limitation it's a different problem. I will however use the Live CD/USB boot option. 5) Speaking about Live CD/USB boot I have had an issue with Kali and other Linux flavors in the past wherein they mount or do something to my NTFS partitions even when I have never tried using the NTFS partitions while in the Live boot environment. Is there a way for you to auto writeblock the disks in your upcoming version of Pentoo like a lot of the Forensic Distros like Helix etc do. It would help with not having to deal with NTFS corruption caused by the Live CDs/USBs. Is your latest build going to have a persistence boot mode similar to the latest version of Kali? I have never used Pentoo before but I'd be happy if this comes out of the box or there is a fairly straightforward way to do this as I'd like to spend more time learning DSP/SDR than tinkering around with the environment. 6) I think there was some confusion about by 2 host setup. Basically I was trying to have one host with a hacrf and the other host would be interacting with it in a way similar to remoting into it. Not trying to use hackrf_tcp though that seems quite interesting. Again thank you for your time and all the clarifications. It's really appreciated.
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