[fedora-virt] xinit, Spice and sound

[Eric Viseur]

Thanks for the tip !  Turns out I get no sound using pacat from the host.
I'll ask my question on a more PA-oriented mailing.

Regards,

Eric Viseu
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2013/7/9 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>

> On 07/09/2013 07:06 AM, Eric Viseur wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Back with one more (probably last for the moment) problem, with sound
> this time.
> >
> > When I connect to a Windows 7 (ich6 audio device) with virt-manager or
> spicec
> > from Gnome, sound works like a charm.
> > However, for the intended use, my standard boot sequence is booting
> Fedora in
> > the multi-user.target (runlevel 3), and run spicec with xinit.
> > In this situation, I logically get a connection refused to pulseaudio
> since it
> > isn't running.  If I start pulseaudio with start-pulseaudio-x11 as the
> user
> > running spicec, I don't get any errors, but no sound either.
> >
> > I know this has more to do with pulseaudio than virtualization, however,
> since
> > I know sound has been a long time issue with Spice on previous versions,
> maybe
> > someone can help me on this ?
> >
>
> No ideas from me, though you can eliminate qemu/spice from the equation by
> seeing if 'pacat /dev/urandom' actually generates any sound when run from
> the
> host. If not, it's strictly an environment/pulseaudio issue. Turn down your
> volume first since the noise is pretty offensive if it works :)
>
> - Cole
>
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