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 Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list