[Spice-devel] [PATCH] Manual: add info about QEMU_AUDIO_DRV

[Uri Lublin]

On 11/29/2016 06:54 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> hramrach on IRC had an issue with audio not working. He was using
> suse and his qemu defaulted to using the pulseaudio audio driver instead
> of spice.  Explicitly setting the audio driver to spice using the
> QEMU_AUDIO_DRV environment variable solved the problem. Add this tip to
> the manual for others having the same issue in the future.
> ---
>  docs/manual/manual.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.txt b/docs/manual/manual.txt
> index 9d394b6..3b097ba 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/manual.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/manual.txt
> @@ -257,6 +257,13 @@ communication with the client. The Spice option `disable-ticketing` is
>  specifying that ticketing (simple authentication method) is not
>  used. The virtio and chardev devices are required by the guest agent.
>
> +The `-soundhw ac97` option provides a sound device for the guest to use for

Hi Jonathon,

I think for VMs with newer Operating Systems (not sure which ones)
it's better to use '-soundhw hda' (Intel HD Audio).

Looks good otherwise.

Uri.

> +audio playback and recording. In order for spice audio to work to properly,
> +qemu must use the 'spice' audio driver. Depending on how qemu was built,
> +however, this might not be the default audio driver. To ensure qemu uses the
> +spice audio driver, you can set the environment variable
> +`QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice`.
> +
>  Basic configuration
>  -------------------