Thank you - I overlooked the obvious. Regards,
Erik On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Erik Lotspeich > <erik.lotspe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Please post your QEMU command-line (you can find it with "ps aux | grep >>> qemu"). >>> >>> If you are running through libvirt/virsh/virt-manager there may be >>> permission requirements since the guest can be set to run as an >>> unprivileged user without access to audio devices. That's just a guess >>> but worth looking into. >> >> Here's my qemu command line: >> >> qemu 5294 19.6 25.7 2444808 2101252 ? Sl 06:47 1:00 > ^^ > Libvirt is running the qemu-kvm process as user 'qemu'. Does that > user have the necessary groups (e.g. 'audio')? > > On my system the unprivileged user is called 'libvirt-qemu' and here's > what I get: > > $ id libvirt-qemuuid=105(libvirt-qemu) gid=112(kvm) groups=112(kvm) > > You may need to add 'qemu' to group 'audio' or whatever is necessary > to let it access ALSA devices or talk to a sound daemon. > Stefan
