Re: configuring sound in an hvm

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Michael Litchard wrote:
> Sound doesn't work. Not in FreeBSD, Win2k or any OS I try as an HVM
> instance. I googled this, and it would seem this is a network issue.
> Is this correct. Could someone tell me the first steps I need to take
> to get sound working. If, for example, I could get sound working on a
> windows 2000 HVM, I could install netbsd/xen on my girlfriend's
> machine in a way that makes it much easier to administrate.
> 
> For my purposes, I would like to run a freebsd or netbsd hvm as a domU
> running multimedia apps, so I can get those off of the dom0.

Add

soundhw='sb16'

in your guest config file. The HVM guest will see a sb16 card then.

Also make sure, sound works in the Dom0 as qemu-dm will use
Dom0 sound device.

Christoph