On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Am 09.11.2010 00:48, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > 08.11.2010 15:40, Stefan Pietsch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm running a Windows XP guest in KVM. After enabling the audio support > >> (-soundhw es1370) the CPU load of the KVM process in the host system > >> goes up to 100%. > >> > >> Tested with: qemu-kvm-0.13.0 Debian 0.13.0+dfsg-1 > >> > >> KVM start command: kvm -m 512 -hda xp.img -soundhw es1370 > >> > >> Did you experience similar problems? > > > > Yes, sound in 0.13 appears to be broken. It is looping in > > select/read loop forever, read returns EAGAIN and select > > says the filedescriptor is ready. > > Try to set QEMU_AUDIO_DAC_TRY_POLL=0 for the environment of the qemu > process. That's long required to get sound out of the Musicpal emulation > as well (malc, you may recall this). It even got worse with current > qemu.git: previously, the sounds was just quirky. Now the system is > booting way slower in polling mode and is partially not reactive anymore. Wich driver is being used? ALSA stuff should have been fixed by Jindrich Makovicka in: 38cc9b607f85017b095793cab6c129bc9844f441 and 22d948a2d97434192018bdabaf0a50cda7f994be -- mailto:av1474@xxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html