[fedora-virt] state of spice and audio?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 00:23:24 UTC 2010


On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:52:00 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> libvirt sets "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none".  Which in turn will make qemu send 
> all audio to /dev/null.  Setting "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice" will make qemu 
> send all audio to the spice client.  As you need a wrapper script anyway 
> to enable spice you can easily stick this in there as well to make audio 
> work.

Yep, that did indeed fix it (thanks for spotting what my eyes
apparently couldn't see - seems pretty obvious when pointed out :-).

Now that I got that far in my testing, I was able to add a
new (apparently random) bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635900

The spice client crashed on me with a failed to parse message error
(but I couldn't reproduce it, even playing same video).


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