thanks Dor, looking at the logs you seem to have a point: LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -m 1024 -smp 1 -name winxp -uuid 8 8b53573-a3c1-3e12-8703-ea3fc8580493 -monitor unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/winxp.monitor,server,nowait -localtime -boot c -drive file =/var/lib/libvirt/images/winxp.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on,format=raw -drive file=/home/daniel/ISO/WINXP_SP2_PRO.iso,if=ide,media=c drom,index=2 -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:62:66:ed,vlan=0,name=nic.0 -net tap,fd=18,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc <a href="http://127.0.0.1:1">127.0.0.1:1</a> -k en-gb -vga cirrus -soundhw es1370 I noticed the QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none variable here which is how virt-manager is trying to start the vm. Shouldn't that be QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa in the case of Fedora 12? How can I change that value, so virt-manager starts the vm correctly? <div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/30 Dor Laor <<a href="mailto:dlaor@redhat.com">dlaor@redhat.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On 12/29/2009 04:57 PM, Daniel Sanabria wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all, I can't get any sound out of a windows xp guest. I've tried <sound model='es1370'/> and <sound model='ac97'/> and windows seems to recognize them ok but no sound at all. My audio setup in the host is fairly simple, fedora12 and an integrated sound card + a USB headset, both are successfully detected by fedora and I can switch between the 2 without problems. I feel like something is missing here, the host_sound and guest_sound doesn't seem to be integrated properly. What setting can I change to get sound out of the guest? </blockquote> </div></div> It might be a qemu issue - there are several config options for qemu package: --audio-drv-list=oss/alsa/sdl on upstream code non worked reliably for me, in the past it did work, so its probably a regression. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks in advance, Daniel _______________________________________________ Fedora-virt mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-virt@redhat.com" target="_blank">Fedora-virt@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt</a> </blockquote> </blockquote></div>