hramrach on IRC had an issue with audio not working. He was using suse and his qemu defaulted to using the pulseaudio audio driver instead of spice. Explicitly setting the audio driver to spice using the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV environment variable solved the problem. Add this tip to the manual for others having the same issue in the future. --- docs/manual/manual.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.txt b/docs/manual/manual.txt index 9d394b6..3b097ba 100644 --- a/docs/manual/manual.txt +++ b/docs/manual/manual.txt @@ -257,6 +257,13 @@ communication with the client. The Spice option `disable-ticketing` is specifying that ticketing (simple authentication method) is not used. The virtio and chardev devices are required by the guest agent. +The `-soundhw ac97` option provides a sound device for the guest to use for +audio playback and recording. In order for spice audio to work to properly, +qemu must use the 'spice' audio driver. Depending on how qemu was built, +however, this might not be the default audio driver. To ensure qemu uses the +spice audio driver, you can set the environment variable +`QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice`. + Basic configuration ------------------- -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel