[fedora-virt] Sound not working on vm clients

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Jun 18 11:39:39 UTC 2012


On 06/17/2012 06:23 PM, David Highley wrote:
> "Cole Robinson wrote:"
>>
>> On 06/16/2012 10:06 PM, David Highley wrote:
>>> We have two vm clients and neither have sound.
>>> hosting platform is Fedora 16 x86_64
>>> first client is Fedora 17 i686
>>> second client is Ubuntu 12.04 i686
>>>
>>> libvirt-0.9.6-5.fc16.x86_64
>>> qemu-kvm-0.15.1-5.fc16.x86_64
>>>
>>> Tried both VNC and Spice modes. Did set, vnc_allow_host_audio = 1, in
>>> /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf file. Just in case we put selinux in Permissive
>>> mode. Still no sound.
>>>
>>
>> On F16, using SPICE is the only good way to get sound, so do your testing with
>> that. Please provide the following info
>>
>> - How are you connecting to the guest console?
>> - sudo virsh dumpxml $vmname
>> - sudo cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$vmname.log
> 
> I did switch to using SPICE and both the host and quest show the same
> audio configuration. Attached the two requested files.
> 

Your qemu log file only shows guest config when the VM was configured with
VNC. Please try running with spice, and see if that works. If not, attach the
log file after running with spice enabled.

Thanks,
Cole



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