On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > On my machine, a guest fails to boot if it has a sound card, but not > graphical device/display is configured, because pulseaudio fails to > initialize since it can't access $HOME. > > A workaround is removing the audio device, however on ARM boards there > isn't any option to do that, so -nographic always fails. > > Set QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none if no <graphics> are configured. Unfortunately > this has massive test suite fallout. > @@ -7559,9 +7559,13 @@ qemuBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn, > * if you ask for nographic. So we have to make sure we override > * these defaults ourselves... > */ > - if (!def->graphics) > + if (!def->graphics) { > virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-nographic"); > > + /* trying to talk directly to pulseaudio is generally problematic */ > + virCommandAddEnvString(cmd, "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none"); > + } We do something similar with VNC by default, but we have a global qemu.conf override for that. /* Unless user requested it, set the audio backend to none, to * prevent it opening the host OS audio devices, since that causes * security issues and might not work when using VNC. */ if (cfg->vncAllowHostAudio) virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV"); else virCommandAddEnvString(cmd, "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none"); I think we probably want todo the same here, since it is in theory possible to make pulseaudio work for the QEMU driver. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list