Am Sonntag, 24. Januar 2021, 23:04:54 CET schrieb Linux-Fan: > Rainer Dorsch writes: > > Hi, > > > > I created a virtual machine using libvirt with qemu/kvm. To make it > > simple, I installed a Debian 10 guest on a Debian 10 host. I am > > wondering, if it is possible to access (pulse-)audio from the guest. > > > > Any hint or advice is welcome. > > For me it works out of the box in the way that I can hear sound played > inside the VM and the VM can record from the microphone attached to the PC. > > In virt-manager it appears as "Sound ich9" device added to the respective > VMs. Host and guest both use Pulseaudio. In case you do not use GUI, it > might be enough to add the following device in the VM's XML: > > <sound model='ich9'> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1b' > function='0x0'/> </sound> > > I do not know if it can be made to work in a way that just a single pulse > audio server is running -- in my configuration, the guest and host both have > their respective pulse audio instances although the sound itself passes > from the one to the other wihtout explicit configuration :) >
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried again and it seems sound works now :-) I also used virt-manager, but I did not find any sound devices in there. Are you using Debian 10? virt-manager from stable or stable-backports? Where do you see the "Sound ich9" device? Thanks Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/
