Pulseaudio is a sound *backend*. This is independent of the choice of guest hardware frontend.
You can disable pulseaudio using an env variable QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1583420 Title: Please support "-soundhw none" Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: qemu currently provides a default set of sound hardware. The -soundhw option can change that default set, such as by using "-soundhw pcspkr" to disable most of it, but no "-soundhw none" option exists to disable all of it. As far as I can tell, disabling the default sound hardware requires specifying -nodefaults and then manually specifying all the desired hardware, leaving out sound hardware. Please consider adding support for "-soundhw none", to disable all the default sound hardware. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1583420/+subscriptions
