Fedora 11 qemu-kvm virtual machine missing sound hw

[Bill Davidsen]

Andy Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Bill Davidsen<davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, I need to research how this stuff works better as I haven't
> figured out how to connect to the console when running it from the
> command line.

When you start the machine it should just open a window right then and there, no 
"connect to it" needed unless you use options, then need vnc software.

> I think I figured out my problem though, it looks like libvirtd
> disables soundhw if selinux is enabled, even if it's in permissive
> mode.
> 
Interesting if true.

> I'll test that theory out when I have time in the next few days.
> 


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