Re: [libvirt] sound does not work for me

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > I must must be doing something wrong because all the messages, etc. I > have found says that sound works for guests. > > I let the guest's virtual sound device default to ES1370. > > I have tried f11 32 bit, f11 64 bit, and win2k and sound just does not > work for any of them. > > I tried this with F11 64 bit host (libvirt 0.6.2) and a different F11 64 > bit host with preview packages installed (libvirt 0.6.5) ... sound works > on each of the host system but does not work for an guests. > > With a F11 64 bit guest, the sound preference applet shows the output > device os "null". Also, doing "lspci" shows NO sound device. > > OK, what is going on? The whole backend sound architecture/model for QEMU is more or less broken, eg you hve a VNC display and the sound gets played back via SDL which is just totally pointless & incapable of integrating with desktop sound services. Thus we had to disable it, pending making it work properly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508317