Re: [fedora-virt] xinit, Spice and sound

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