KVM/QEMU audio question (probably RTFM)

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/29/2008 08:51 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/28/2008 04:47 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>> One other bit about sound. I'm reinstalling windows vista using=20
>> kvm/qemu and I'm going through this painful two stage install.=20
>> (Windows home first, then business second as an update to home...)=20
>> Sound never worked under home, but once the business version was=20
>> installed, the virtual system recognized the "sound card". At that=20
>> point I was able to hear the various click/action sounds snips of=20
>> windows. So you may have to make sure WVUltimate has all its updates=20
>> so that it installs the right sound driver on the windows side....
> I just installed Windows XP under KVM, and it did come up with sound.=20
> One issue is that the install from DVD failed,, but I then reinstalled =

> from the iso and it succeeded. So, AFAIK, KVM works ok. One of the=20
> reasons for my having Windows installed is that I can easily backup my =

> blackberry. There is no good Blackberry sync software on Linux yet=20
> (I've looked as Barry and Funambol).  So, at this time, things seem to =

> be ok. I'll try to reinstall Windows Vista again and see if it comes=20
> up with sound.
>
After reinstalling Windows Vista, the problem is that QEMU emulates an=20
Ensoniq ES1370, and apparently there is not a Vista driver for it.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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