I'm setting up a Windows 7 virtual machine to try and eliminate my physical partition. I have it installed and working with Spice and the drivers from the fedora site:
When I connect via Spice, I can connect and see the video pretty quickly. However, I don't hear any sound. If I put in the soundhw option, it no longer runs as a daemon where I can connect to Spice.
Does Spice not pass through sound or am I doing something wrong?
My command line for the emulation:
#!/bin/bash
#-monitor stdio \
SPICE_PORT=5924
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -daemonize \ -enable-kvm \ -cpu host \ -drive file=/home/mike/underling.img,if=virtio \ -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostname=underling \ -m 4G \ -name Underling \ -usbdevice tablet \ -device virtio-serial \ -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,name=vdagent \ -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ -vga qxl \ -spice port=${SPICE_PORT},disable-ticketing \ "$@"
exec spicec --title Underling -h 127.0.0.1 -p ${SPICE_PORT}1 Answer
Turns out Spice certainly DOES allow sound passthrough. My issue was that I had put -soundhw hda without putting a \ after it. So now it finally works with the audio passthrough with Spice and here is my run shell script:
#!/bin/bash
#-monitor stdio \
SPICE_PORT=5924
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -daemonize \ -enable-kvm \ -cpu host \ -drive file=/home/mike/underling.img,if=virtio \ -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostname=underling \ -m 4G \ -soundhw hda \ -name Underling \ -usbdevice tablet \ -device virtio-serial \ -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,name=vdagent \ -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ -vga qxl \ -spice port=${SPICE_PORT},disable-ticketing \ "$@"
exec spicec --title Underling -h 127.0.0.1 -p ${SPICE_PORT}
