Fedora 11 qemu-kvm virtual machine missing sound hw

[Bill Davidsen]

Andy Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to see if the qemu-kvm stuff in F11 is a good replacement
> for me for VirtualBox and running into one problem.  I can't seem to
> get the VM to add a sound device to a windows XP guest.  In the
> Virtual Machine itself, a es1370 sound device was automatically
> created.  I removed it and created another, and even added an sb16
> device hoping it would work as well, but it's never picking up any
> kind of sound device.
> 
> the qemu-kvm process (seen via ps command) doesn't contain -soundhw
> es1370 that i think it's supposed to contain.  Anyone know a solution
> to this?  Starting the VM via virsh has the same effect as using the
> gui virt-manager.
> 
> virsh dumpxml WindowsXP does contain:
>     <sound model='es1370'/>
> 
I don't have that problem running from cli, so it is a problem in the libvirt 
stuff, not in qemu-kvm. There is probably a way to get the virt-* stuff to do 
what you want, I just never found a good reason to add one more level of 
obscurity between where I am and what I want. virt-manager is outstanding as 
long as you want to do what it expects you to do, after that it's a learning 
experience.

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