Sound in conf file

[hadyos]

Hi,

How do I add sound using the soundhw switch in the conf file ?

I know there is a way to do it with command line but I prefer to start my machines with conf file.

 

[dietmar]

It makes no sense to use the sound hardware of the server, so it is not supported.

When you use RDP you can tunnel sound anyways.

- Dietmar

 

[hadyos]

Sound

Well, it does make sense if one your guest machines is sip pbx or an home automation console which gives voice prompt about various things and you want an headless system which is not alwayes connected to an rdp client.

Why not put it as an option and if one decide to use it, he/she could.

Not all guest mahines are database machines there are some other uses...

 

[tom]

Well, it does make sense if one your guest machines is sip pbx or an home automation console which gives voice prompt about various things and you want an headless system which is not alwayes connected to an rdp client.

Why not put it as an option and if one decide to use it, he/she could.

Not all guest mahines are database machines there are some other uses...

I will add this to our wish list, but I assume it will get a quite low priority against other major enhancements.

 

[dietmar]

Just uploaded a new version of qemu-server. You can now pass arbitrary argument to kvm using the args option:

qm set VMID -args "-soundhw sb16"

or directly edit the config file in "/etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf".

Does that work for you?

- Dietmar

 

[hadyos]

No go

Thanks for the patch but it seems that it's not working.
I did a full reboot of the system but still if I login with an RDP client the guest OS report
"No Sound Device"

Yossi.

 

[dietmar]

What sound hardware do you have? And whats the output of

# kvm -soundhw ?