<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi, </div>I found the main reason for sound distortions on my system is guest timer configuration. </div>The working one is: <clock offset="localtime"> <timer name="hypervclock" present="yes"/> <timer name="hpet" present="no"/> <timer name="rtc" present="yes" track="guest" tickpolicy="delay"/> </clock> ... <qemu:commandline>a <qemu:arg value='-machine'/> <qemu:arg value='kernel_irqchip=on'/> <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/> <qemu:arg value='host,migratable=no,+invtsc,hv_time,+kvm_pv_eoi,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vendor_id=nv_fuck_you!,kvm=off'/> </qemu:commandline> </div>The important part here is "host,migratable=no,+invtsc". It gives guest the invariant TSC (CPU must support it). This is a bit of a hack. Everything, except migratable=no, can be configured through proper XML elements, however +invtsc requires migratable=no, and I don't know a way to pass it other than using qemu:arg. Note it completely overrides qemus -cpu parameter created from other tags. Don't paste my qemu:arg of it. Run your VM without it, check libvirt log, and copy from it what is passed to qemu as -cpu parameter, then add migratable=no,+invtsc.<div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2016-12-20 4:41 GMT+02:00 Manuel Ullmann <<a href="mailto:ullman.alias@posteo.de" target="_blank">ullman.alias@posteo.de</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, I can’t seem to find a solution for my last VM issue. I have distorted sound, when I play the Windows 10 device test sound. Only the Windows sound is affected. Mpd of the host is playing just fine meanwhile. I am using ich9 as emulated card, which is detected and installed correctly. The VM is using vfio-igd passthrough, so vnc or spice are not used. I tried to match the Windows driver configuration, which only supports 16 bit output. I have a 24 bit USB headphone amplifier, which does not support it (S32_LE only). Trying direct playback on the PCH card jack did not help though. The headphone amplifier is connected via optical Toslink, so there is standard snd_hda_intel output used (snd_usb_audio is not involved). Passing the USB part through I get much clearer output, but still have popping sounds. Googling around, they seem to be quite common on Windows 10, although I had it working fine on two bare-metal machines. I have tried fixed settings matching the ones of the dmixed device too. Don’t know, what is polled with enabled poll option. I also tried sdl and pulseaudio, which did not help. For the latter not so surprising since it is an Alsa pipe. The former was worse. The goal of this setup is having the same playlist state on both systems and using the better audio framework for music playback (Windows uses too much software layers). Of course the popping sounds on audio device passthrough also would be annoying, but that might be a different issue. Best regards, Manuel used alsa device: pcm.dmixed { type asym playback.pcm { # See plugin:dmix at <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html</a> type dmix # Don't block other users, e.g. the Timidity midi-player daemon # <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html</a> ipc_key_add_uid false ipc_key 1025 ipc_perm 0660 ipc_gid audio # Don't put the rate here! Otherwise it resets the rate & channels set below, as shown by: cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params slave { # 2 for stereo, 6 for surround51, 8 for surround71 channels 2 pcm { format S16_LE #format S32_LE #rate 44100 rate 48000 # <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html</a> # Maybe helps nonblock true type hw card "PCH" device 0 subdevice 0 } # mplayer2 chooses 1024 # period_size 512 with buffer_size 16384 stops crackling in xmame # 320 breaks flash - <a href="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129458" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129458</a> #period_size 512 period_size 1024 # 4096 might make sound crackle # mplayer2 chooses 8192. Half-Life 2 chooses 16384. # If too large, use CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE=2048 buffer_size 8192 } } capture.pcm "schneeball" } libvirt xml snippets: <sound model='ich9'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </sound> ... <qemu:env name='QEMU_AUDIO_DRV' value='alsa'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_FIXED_SETTINGS' value='0'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_TRY_POLL' value='0'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_TIMER_PERIOD' value='0'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_BUFFER_SIZE' value='0'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_PERIOD_SIZE' value='0'/> <qemu:env name='QEMU_DAC_DEV' value='dmixed'/> _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users</a></blockquote></div> </div></div>