<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Emre, Andrew</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thank you for your prompt responses.</span></div><div><span>Audio is working fine in 64-bit Windows7 Guest after specifying "-soundhw hda" option instead of "-soundhw ac97" when launching Windows7 Guest thru Qemu v0.14.0.</span></div><div><span>I appreciate your help a lot.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>Thanks/Mohan.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 3, 2011 1:29 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Spice-devel] Audio Fails in 64-bit Windows7 Guest<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv847914301"><div class="yiv847914301gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Naga Mohan Pothula <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com">nagamohan.pothula@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv847914301gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div>Hi, </div><div><br></div><div>Audio is not working in 64-bit Windows7 Guest connected from any Linux/Windows Client.</div>
<div>I noticed this problem with Spice v0.63/0.8 versions. I haven't tried on other Spice versions.</div><div>When starting Spice Server, we are specifying "-soundhw AC97" option</div><div><br></div><div>I have read in some forums that Qemu-kvm supports the following sound cards other than AC 97.</div>
<div><pre><span style="color:black;">pcspk PC speaker – not all VM guests supports (read in some forum).</span></pre><pre><span style="color:black;"></span>sb16 Creative Sound Blaster 16.</pre><pre>es1370 ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 – windows 7 recognizes this but frequent driver crashes(read in some forum).</pre>
</div><div><pre><span style="color:black;">I read in some forums that Audio would not work in
64-bit Windows7 even we specified above sound card names. </span></pre><pre><span style="color:black;">I tried installing Realtek AC97 Audio driver but it is not working.</span></pre><pre><span style="color:black;">Can anyone please let me know which Audio driver needs to be installed/soundcard to be specified to support Audio in Win7 x64?</span></pre>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From what I remember, AC97 sound card emulation and others don't work in Win7 x64. You need to use at least a qemu-0.14 with the Intel HDA card support enabled. virt-manager is also not aware of this sound card.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Emre<br>
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