[Spice-devel] Audio Fails in 64-bit Windows7 Guest

[Emre Erenoglu]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Naga Mohan Pothula <
nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Audio is not working in 64-bit Windows7 Guest connected from any
> Linux/Windows Client.
> I noticed this problem with Spice v0.63/0.8 versions. I haven't tried on
> other Spice versions.
> When starting Spice Server, we are specifying "-soundhw AC97" option
>
> I have read in some forums that Qemu-kvm supports the following sound cards
> other than AC 97.
>
> pcspk PC speaker – not all VM guests supports (read in some forum).
>
> sb16 Creative Sound Blaster 16.
>
> es1370 ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 – windows 7 recognizes this but frequent driver crashes(read in some forum).
>
> I read in some forums that Audio would not work in
>  64-bit Windows7 even we specified above sound card names.
>
> I tried installing Realtek AC97 Audio driver but it is not working.
>
> Can anyone please let me know which Audio driver needs to be installed/soundcard to be specified to support Audio in Win7 x64?
>
>